Gold price spikes
Gold vaults $1,200 an ounce amid oil and equity slide, but physical gold ETF investors continue liquidate their holdings.
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:
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.
Gold, silver run out of big sellers
Gold and silver price holds up well in the face of Friday's blowout jobs report, jump in stocks and bond yields and renewed slide in oil.
Walsh: My ‘amazing’ Rio turnaround ‘will be a Harvard case study’
Rio Tinto CEO credentialing ahead of another round with "combative" Ivan Glasenberg.
Iron ore price surges
Benchmark 62% fines up 3% and premiums for high quality lump ore jump to 11-month high.
Jeffrey Nichols: paper gold bears losing grip on price
Physical buyers numbering millions are setting up a sustainable long-term gold price upswing in the face of a small group of speculators.
Precious metals firm is Britain’s most admired company
200-year old Johnson Matthey refines precious metals, manufactures autocatalysts and produces the platinum group metals industry's most watched research.
CHART: Gold now looks very expensive vs oil
An ounce of gold now buys you the same number of barrels of crude it did in December 2012, when the price was around $1,700 an ounce.
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.