Turn a 200kt copper surplus into 1.6mt deficit in 3 easy slides
Glencore says 2015 supply forecasts are way too optimistic and the Swiss commodities giant has the charts and tables to prove it
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:
Fourth Batista company goes bankrupt
Disgraced Brazilian tycoon once held 90% of power utility worth $3.2 billion just three years ago.
Home Alone, Mystic Pizza producer wants to make Bre-X movie
Hollywood mogul has already attracted investment from miners to film industry's biggest scandal.
Vietnam’s emerging nickel-sulphide district
Asian Mineral Resources blazes a trail in South East Asia.
Kinsley Mountain delivers again for Pilot Gold and Nevada Sunrise
Vancouver junior joint venture partners' stock jump after latest set of drilling results from Nevada property.
Gold price surges as stocks correct
Gold price jumps $44 on the back of falling global equities and fresh fears over Europe and China.
Gold price spikes
Gold vaults $1,200 an ounce amid oil and equity slide, but physical gold ETF investors continue liquidate their holdings.
US mining can’t find workers fast enough
More than 36% of the jobs in mining and logging stay open for longer than three months.
Vale may settle Simandou lawsuit
Rio Tinto is suing Vale for billions over allegations the Brazilian giant and its former partner illegally acquired the West African iron ore deposit, one of the richest prizes in all of mining.
Anglo American drops Peru copper project
Miner's belt tightening continues.
MEGAMINES: Top 10 most capital intensive bulk mining projects
When these stomach-churning capital outlays start to produce returns, they do so in spades and over generations.
