This study puts gold price at $1,850 with Trump win
ABN Amro charts gold movements for US presidents going back to Ford in 1974 – bonus: Pres Clinton's will also lift price, just not as much as Pres Trump
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:
Snap Lake diamond mine is for sale
De Beers underground mine in Canada's arctic, shuttered since December, cost $1.7 billion to build and operate and never turned a profit.
BHP’s really in no hurry for Jansen potash
Progress at BHP project in Saskatchewan only 14% closer to completion after a year's work.
Metals and mining rally has staying power
Industrial metals are now all trading above their 100-day moving averages and most are no longer in backwardation.
Newmont shares bounce back after results
World's number two gold producer's second quarter results ticks all the boxes as it throws off $486 million in free cash in its second quarter.
BHP’s copper output to bounce back
World's top miner expects to produce 1.7 million tonnes in 2017 as output at giant Escondida mine jumps 9%.
Ugly week for iron ore price
Down 6.3% over five trading days.
Shares of Vancouver zinc producer blows up
Trevali stock is up 44% in two weeks as Canadian mine enters commercial production and record output at flagship Peru operation is topped by high-grade find.
Did $78 billion South African gold exports really go missing?
According to a UN report, since 2000 two-thirds of South Africa's gold exports – mostly to India – did not appear on its trade partners' books.
Australia slashes iron ore price forecast 20%
Dept of Industry says loss-making mines are staying open for longer than expected aggravating oversupply.
CHART: Copper price surge mints 23 new unicorn mines
The ranks of copper mining’s answer to Silicon Valley's $1 billion startup unicorns swell to 75.