Copper, iron ore price rally adds $250bn to Top 50 mining companies
Q4 rally also sees first entry into MINING.COM's ranking of the world's 50 most valuable mining companies of a non-producer – Ivanhoe Mines.
Frik Els
Frik has 20 years’ experience as a business journalist across a range of industries including automotive, technology and entertainment markets. Frik has an entry in Global Mining Observer’s Who’s Who of Mining 2018, and contributions to publications and conferences including Business Insider, Investing.com, Mines & Money London and New York, Vancouver Resources Investment, Progressive Mine Forum in Toronto and Canadian Mining Symposium in London, UK. He’s been interviewed on CBC Radio and Korea State TV and quoted in the Financial Post.
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MINING.COM’s most popular stories of 2020
Even setting aside the disruptions and uncertainty created by the pandemic, 2020 was a tumultuous year on mining and metals markets.
EV Metal Index on course for record year
MINING.COM EV Metal Index, which tracks the value of battery metals in newly registered passenger EVs surge 80% year on year.
Big mining stocks make spectacular covid comeback
Early running was made by gold stocks, but large-scale diversified companies and base metal producers have now caught up as iron ore and copper prices rally hard.
Iron ore prices are going ballistic
Iron ore surges 6% to March 2013 high on Friday as Brazil supply worries, a red hot China economy, and a Beijing-Canberra row convulse seaborne trade.
Carmakers have blind spot for lithium, cobalt, nickel prices
New research report has a warning for electric carmakers about the direction of battery prices without incentives to build new mines.
EV Metal Index rockets to record high on cobalt, nickel price, use
Booming global electric car sales and growth in battery capacity lift MINING.COM EV Metal Index to monthly record and wipe out 2020 pandemic losses.
Copper price surges on Peru worries, China futures launch
Copper price at fresh multi year high on worries over Peru concentrate supply, optimism about new Chinese futures contract open to international investors.
How Olympic Dam went from mother of all digs to debottlenecking
The final chapter on the world's most ambitious – and costly – mining project has closed.
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Appian closes $775m fund as institutions line up for mining investment
London-based Appian Capital Advisory closes oversubscribed $775 million mining investment fund with 40% already committed.