Gold price jumps to 5-year high
Fed hint at rate cuts lights fire under gold price.
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 contributed to BBC World and National Geographic documentary research.
Posts by Frik Els:
Copper price surges as supply worries return
Optimism US-China trade talks are back on track also lifts sentiment.
Elon Musk says Tesla “might get into mining”
Tesla CEO says product rollout is tied to battery production and "we have to look further down the supply chain."
Iron ore price at fresh 5-year high
News that Vale may be restarting full production at its 30m tonnes per year Brucutu mine sooner than expected did not stop […]
This 50-year chart shows just how undervalued commodities are
New study plotting US equities against raw material prices going back to 1970 points to 112% upside for commodities just to return to trend.
Something Big Is Coming
MINING.COM was launched in February 2011 and quickly grew to become the most read mining news and opinion site in the world. […]
Copper price falls on worst global factory data since 2012
Growing trade fears combine with shrinking global manufacturing activity to push copper price to lowest level for 2019.
Gold price builds momentum as hedge funds add 36% to bullish bets
Large-scale speculators in gold futures are positioning for an extended gold rally.
CHART: Worst May for US stocks in 9 years lights fire under gold price
Gold price jumps on safe haven demand amid trade war, but main trigger for extended rally will be declines on US equity markets, says new report.
FLASHBACK: Rare earth mining in China — low tech, dirty and devastating
A report by state news agency Xinhua paints a particularly grim picture of China's rare earth industry which belies the notion that China's crackdown has more to do with managing supply and extracting lofty profits than it is about cleaning up a notoriously dirty business.
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Gold price jumps to 5-year high
Fed hint at rate cuts lights fire under gold price.