Gold price: Investors are pouring $1 billion per month into ETFs
Net inflows into gold-backed exchange traded funds rose again in May, lifting value of private bullion to $103 billion, highest since 2013.
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.
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Solgold shares jump on Ecuador drilling
Up 8% at the open after intersects add more bulk to already massive Cascabel copper-gold project in north of South American country.
Copper price soars to 3-month high
Up nearly 4% after union at world's only 1 million tonne copper mine demands owner BHP makes biggest bonus payout ever to Chilean mineworkers.
Cobalt thrifting in EV batteries won’t dent price any time soon
Even best-case, mass early roll-out of new cobalt-light batteries won’t solve cobalt supply issues says new report.
Cobalt price: Congo production surges
Top supplier of battery raw material ups output 34% year on year.
Nickel price is soaring
Up 75% in a year battery producers stock up on high grade exchange-held metal in anticipation of electric vehicle boom.
Shares in lithium giant fall on disappointing auction
Chilean lithium producer SQM shares punished after $1 billion of shares auctioned below ruling price.
FLUID OUNCES: Gold vs beer price since 1950
99 bottles of beer on the wall...
Biggest electric vehicle battery IPO valuation cut in half
Time to curb your enthusiasm about the electric vehicle boom and surging demand, prices for lithium, cobalt, nickel, rare earth and graphite?
Hedge funds have never been this bearish on platinum price
Large scale speculators in platinum futures go shortest ever as Europe industrial policy chief says "diesel cars are finished".
CHART: Friday massacre for mining stocks but copper price pulls out of nosedive
Historic down day for gold and silver prices caused double digit losses for precious metals stocks but copper miners came off relatively lightly.
