Gold price scales $1,600 after Iran attacks US military base
Up nearly $40 an ounce in after hours trade to fresh six-year high.
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:
Top 50 biggest mining companies enter 2020 near $1 trillion value
MINING.COM’s ranking of the world’s 50 largest mining companies based on market value shows a revived industry entering the 2020s, but with […]
MINING.COM: Top 10 most popular posts of 2019
It's been a tumultuous year in mining and the most read articles of 2019 show an industry grappling with technological change, market volatility and climate change, but still unafraid to take moonshots.
Copper price jumps to 7-month high on Trump trade deal
Bloomberg is reporting US president Trump has signed off on a phase-one deal with China.
Copper price rally builds on all-time high China imports
Copper price hits 20-week high as Chinese concentrate imports surge and stockpiles in the country drop to six year low.
4 charts that say this time the copper price surge could last
"For one, copper supply is probably less ample than the apparent consumption data indicate."
US payrolls light fire under copper price
Copper bulls use robust economic data and progress on trade talks to push the price higher.
Nickel, cobalt price: Electric car sales are tanking, but metal use spikes
According to a new report, in October the average EV sold globally contained 22% more nickel, 19% more cobalt and 15% more manganese than a year prior.
Tipping point for electric cars still four years away – report
Price of lithium-ion batteries used in EVs has dropped 87% since 2010, but reaching price-parity with internal combustion engines has ways to go.
ARCHIVE: Photo essay of Bingham Canyon after landslide
MINING.COM tours Rio Tinto Kennecott's Bingham Canyon mine 18 months after the largest non-volcanic landslide in history.
Value of EV battery nickel second highest on record, cobalt at 30-month high
Low LFP-penetration markets, Europe is off to the races in 2025 and US buyers pull forward purchases before subsidies end.
