GRAPH: Why you can’t compete with Rio iron ore
World number two miner copes with 46% drop in price in first half of 2015 but keeps iron ore margins above 60% – where it's been for 15 years.
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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Iron ore price rally has legs
Wednesday jump brings gains of 28% in less than a month.
Barrick making plans for $900 an ounce gold price
World's number one gold miner announces program to sell more mines, make deeper cost cuts after completing scenario-planning for a triple digit gold price.
Byproduct of metal price meltdown is a higher silver price
70% of silver is mined as a byproduct – gold, base metal mine closures and declining capex will push silver market into deficit this year says new report.
Report: Glencore, X2 in fight over thermal coal
Ultimate contrarian bidding war.
Mosaic shares bounce on ‘robust’ outlook
Fertilizer giant's potash production, sales and selling prices all tracking at upper range of forecasts.
Copper price: China fears overdone
Chinese manufacturing shocker dropped copper to a six-year low, but new report says weak business sentiment will have limited impact on the real economy.
Final permit for new $750m BC gold mine
Shares in Vancouver's Pretium Resources jump on news construction of super high-grade Brucejack gold-silver mine near Alaska border can now start.
West Africa gold miner surges after stellar quarter
Endeavour Mining shares jump 10% after Vancouver firm slashes debt as mines in Cote d'Ivoire, Mali, Burkina and Ghana mines throw off cash.
Barrick sells 50% of Zaldivar for $1 billion cash
Family-controlled Antofagasta is surprise buyer of Chile copper mine.
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