Frik Els , Editor

Nuclear power to grow fastest in more than 20 years

World Nuclear Association report says declining secondary supply, Asian and Middle East reactor builds necessitate whole new mined uranium pipeline by 2025.

Frik Els | September 11, 2015 | 11:21 am

Iron ore price closing in on $60

Another surge on Thursday as Chinese stockpiles continues to decline.

Frik Els | September 10, 2015 | 2:53 pm

Rio saves $200m a year using robots, big data

Rio's already cut $1bn fat in the Pilbara–autonomous vehicles and data analytics will save another $200 million a year on maintenance over the next 3 years.

Frik Els | September 10, 2015 | 12:50 pm

India’s gold monetization schemes met with skepticism

India's cabinet has launched two gold savings vehicles to to put the 20,000 tonnes of gold held privately to more productive use.

Frik Els | September 9, 2015 | 4:32 pm

Iron ore price surges to 10-week high

Chinese iron ore futures soar 5% after government pledges to speed up infrastructure spending since some sectors like telecoms are only "30–40% completed".

Frik Els | September 9, 2015 | 3:35 pm

Gold price: Bears take charge again

The gold price fell nearly 2% on Wednesday, but even near five-year lows the metal is historically overvalued compared to other commodities says new report.

Frik Els | September 9, 2015 | 12:57 pm

BofA Merrill Lynch: Gold below $1,000 in 2016

"The combination of higher nominal opportunity costs and lack of inflation has hardly ever been bullish in the past 40 years, " says investment bank.

Frik Els | September 8, 2015 | 1:25 pm

Copper price rallies 6%

Glencore's bold move and huge jump in Chinese concentrate imports light fire under copper price.

Frik Els | September 8, 2015 | 11:47 am

World’s top 5 miners lose $540 BILLION market worth

CHART: The commodity slump has slashed major miners' market valuations to 60–88% below 2011 highs.

Frik Els | September 4, 2015 | 11:12 pm

Mining lawsuit of the century just got a lot uglier

Rio Tinto alleges Vale enlisted Ernst & Young "to cover up and sanitize its conspiracy with BSGR" to strip half of the Simandou iron ore deposit from Rio.

Frik Els | September 3, 2015 | 2:11 pm

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