LONDON, July 17 (Reuters) - Platinum prices fell below $1,000 an ounce on Friday for the first time since February 2009, as investors eyed plentiful supply while demand remains under pressure.
Spot platinum XPT= fell to a low of $999 an ounce, and was down 0.4 percent at $1,001.24 at 0852 GMT.
Output by South African platinum producers has been rising this year after strike action in 2014.
Top player Anglo American Platinum AMSJ.J reported a 60 percent rise in refined equivalent production in the second quarter. ID:nFWN0ZV04T
Buying from Chinese jewellery consumers has been soft this year, while indications of a potential slowdown in the car industry, which uses the metal in catalytic converters, is also undermining sentiment towards platinum, analysts said.