Not just the smart money getting into gold
ETF buyers pick up more silver and gold as large investors increase bullish bets 28% and billionaire George Soros doubles his money in gold stocks.
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:
Roxgold reaches another Burkina Faso milestone
Social and environment plan for ultra-high grade Yaramoko gold project approved meaning development could start before the end of the year.
BHP demerger news crashes company website
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The BHP show obscures Australian mining’s deeper problems
Australia's non-bulk mining industry "will die without a strong pipeline of projects moving to development stage," says study.
BHP shares hammered on demerger, profit miss
World's number one miner hopes to save $3.6 billion spinning off aluminium, coal, manganese, nickel and silver assets into new company.
Chinese coal burning set to decline first time in 14 years
China burns almost as much coal as the rest of the world combined, but new data show year to date declines in output and sales.
Oz Minerals unveils PFS for $22 billion copper-gold mine
Looking for partners for $3 billion project in South Australia forecast to produced 114,000 tonnes of copper and 117,000 ounces of gold a year.
Newcrest posts second year of major loss
Production up and costs down, but asset impairment at Papua New Guinea mine results in $2.2 billion statutory loss for Australian gold miner.
BHP spinoff could be worth $12 billion
Speculation is of a new Perth-based company with current CFO Graham Kerr at the helm housing non-core assets including Australian lead-silver mine.
Nearly 17,000 Australian mining jobs to disappear by 2019
Compares with a near doubling of mining, exploration and services positions in the country over the previous five years.
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.