US payrolls light fire under copper price
Copper bulls use robust economic data and progress on trade talks to push the price higher.
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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Nickel, cobalt price: Electric car sales are tanking, but metal use spikes
According to a new report, in October the average EV sold globally contained 22% more nickel, 19% more cobalt and 15% more manganese than a year prior.
Tipping point for electric cars still four years away – report
Price of lithium-ion batteries used in EVs has dropped 87% since 2010, but reaching price-parity with internal combustion engines has ways to go.
ARCHIVE: Photo essay of Bingham Canyon after landslide
MINING.COM tours Rio Tinto Kennecott's Bingham Canyon mine 18 months after the largest non-volcanic landslide in history.
Friedland regains control over large chunk of Ivanhoe shares
Friedland previously pledged 25m shares in Vancouver-based company to a bank.
Iron ore price: World steel production shrinking
US output declines as steelmakers cope with 40% annual decline in prices as anti-dumping effects fade.
Nemaska Lithium shares hit new low, says project shutdown “within weeks”
Discussions with top investor Pallinghurst to finance Whabouchi project in Quebec continue.
Copper price bulls take another beating
Copper price drops after dismal Chinese economic data dash hopes of recovery when "phase one" trade deal with US is inked.
Lithium price: Europe EVs now use 57% more LCE
Europe's only bright spot as average lithium used in EVs sold around the world grows anaemic 4% to 12.2kg.
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4 charts that say this time the copper price surge could last
"For one, copper supply is probably less ample than the apparent consumption data indicate."