Frik Els , Editor

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.

Posts by Frik Els:

No end to uranium price plunge

"Some producers need to move material for cash flow purposes and we have seen some pretty aggressive selling in the past few weeks."

Fed-induced gold price rally building

Déjà vu for the gold market as rate rise is pushed out to December – the last Fed hike marked the end of the bear run and gold started to gain immediately.

Healthy gold price dampens M&A

Mergers and acquisitions in gold mining industry continues to decline as juniors and mid-tier companies make a go of gold price rally.
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Value of EV battery nickel second highest on record, cobalt at 30-month high

Low LFP-penetration markets, Europe is off to the races in 2025 and US buyers pull forward purchases before subsidies end.
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