Faber upends Fed–gold price narrative
Legendary investor Marc Faber: Buy gold while it's cheap because by mid-2016 the Fed will backtrack on rates and launch another round of quantitate easing.
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.
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Fission shares take off on China deal
Hong Kong's CGN Mining buys 20% stake in Kelowna-explorer for $82 million and agrees to uranium offtake from Triple-R project in Saskatchewan.
Gold price bounces back
Gold market in turmoil as traders assess impact of first rate hike in nine years.
Fanya Metal Exchange founder gone missing
Exchange trading in minor metals including antimony, germanium, bismuth, wolfram and indium in Kunming China owes investors more than $6 billion.
2015: Twilight of the Supercycle
A look back at mining and metals in 2015 through MINING.com's most popular stories of the year.
Gold price crashes to six-year low
Bearishness overwhelms gold market as price drops 2.5% to lowest since October 2009.
Gold price rallies on rate hike
Up 1% despite rally in dollar after first interest rate hike in the US since 2006.
The world’s 10 highest mines
Eight of the world's highest elevation mines are in one country
Gold price: Still 1 in 5 chance of Fed surprise
Gold price nears 6-year lows as hedge funds place massive bearish bets on gold, but no rate hike should spark "aggressive short covering" and a price spike.
Some think not too soon for Anglo obituary
Anglo-American perceived as "the most likely of the diversified mining majors to go bust" even if it "goes down fighting".
Top 50 mining companies power through Iran war – up $250 billion in 2026
The world’s 50 biggest mining stocks shrug off global turmoil, hitting a combined $2.4 trillion value in Q1, but the tide did not lift all boats.