Copper price jumps to 6-week high after Chinese factory data
Red metal has now clawed back 62% of its 2015 losses after Chinese manufacturing expands for the first time in four months.
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:
South Africa drops out of top 10 in Africa for mining investment
Namibia and Botswana top the latest mining investment attractiveness index for the continent and move into top 25 worldwide.
CHARTS: Gold vs Fed debt shows fair price today is $1,800
The Buffet indicator shows how unsustainable is the stock market rally. $18 trillion in easy Fed money shows how undervalued gold is.
Biggest steel breakthrough in decades
Korean scientists create a cheap, flexible steel with a strength to weight ratio of today's best titanium alloys using a nickel catalyst.
This BHP slide will bring tears to iron ore price bulls eyes
Weak iron ore prices have become the accepted industry norm, but the world's top miner also has bad news for those hoping for a pick-up in the long term.
Hedge funds raise bearish gold price bets by 44%
Large scale speculators in gold futures added massively to short positions – bets that prices will fall – ahead of Greek bailout deal.
BHP slashing costs faster than expected
World number one miner notches "productivity gains" of $2.4 billion as profits fall 47% in second half of 2014.
Sliding output could drop Barrick to no 4 gold miner
Barrick's production dropped by over 1m ounces last year and a new report predicts further steep declines by 2020.
Coal miners jailed for Mongolia tax evasion seek pardon
US citizen Justin Kapla and two Philippine nationals sentenced to 5 – 6 years in jail while working for coal miner SouthGobi appeal to Mongolian president.
Greek bailout deal drops gold price through $1,200
Extension of $195 billion bailout package boosts stock markets but removes gold's Grexit floor.
Mining’s next boom is off the map: Arctic ice, abyssal plains and asteroids
Depletion, lower ore grades and higher prices pushing miners to new frontiers. The Arctic is already drawing capital, deep-sea mining is moving into a regulatory fight, and space remains the long-dated option.