Despite talk, there’s little chance India will ease gold curbs
India's largest gold refiner says freeing up the gold import business is simply not going to happen because of economic realities.
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:
Sales at world’s largest rare earth firm halves, profits evaporate
Baotou says WTO ruling will only increase pain for the industry.
36,000 Chinese couples marry each day and gold gifts are de rigueur
Parents on either side give the couple gold - what jewelry stores call jiehun san jin, literally "marriage, three gold".
BHP at full throttle
Operational update shows record production achieved for four commodities and at 10 operations.
Copper price rally comes to abrupt end
After steady recovery from near four-year lows, copper price sinks below $3 a pound again over China and supply growth worries.
Turquoise Hill buys time for Oyu Tolgoi expansion
But production at massive Mongolian mine slips and shares take a beating.
Year to the day of $200 shocker, another strange gold price plunge
15 April last year the price of gold plunged $130 in a single session and over $200 in just two days. Today, another inexplicable gold price flash crash.
Rio Tinto iron ore output falls short
But copper production shoots up 17% in first quarter.
Ukraine escalation lifts gold price to 3-week high
Safe-haven buying sparked after Ukraine calls for UN Peacekeepers and chances of "gas war" increases.
Fortuna Silver jumps after breaking production records
The Vancouver-based miner's shares surge after its silver and gold properties in Mexico and Peru up production more than 50%.
Top 50 mining companies power through Iran war – up $250 billion in 2026
The world’s 50 biggest mining stocks shrug off global turmoil hitting a combined $2.4 trillion value in Q1, but the tide did not lift all boats.