Copper price plunges to 8-week low
"Keep an eye on what we call China’s old economy – the property market, the infrastructure segment. That’s where we expect a slowdown sometime this year.”
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:
For Barrick Gold the Pascua-Lama hits keep coming
$429 million impairment on the stalled project after Chile environment agency ordered final closure.
Gold price: 9 straight years of record annual mine production
New report shows world's mines produced all-time peak of 105 million troy ounces of gold in 2017 despite 9% drop in output in top producer China.
Monday massacre: Gold price rises as stocks crater
Gold, copper prices gain as US blue chip index suffers worst points drop in history.
Private capital favours investing in copper over gold for first time
New report shows private equity investment in mining jumped to $2.3 billion last year, with the bulk going into copper and battery metals.
Gold price set for wild ride in 2018 say 34 bullion analysts
Bankers, brokers, refiners and researchers in the London Bullion Market Association's 2018 survey sees gold as high as $1,510 and as low as $1,120 an ounce.
Goldman all but says the mining supercycle is back
“The environment for investing in commodities is the best since 2004-2008” – Goldman Sachs
Congo just gave the cobalt price another big boost
DRC stuns miners with immediate lifting of 10-year exemption for licensees, 50% tax on 'super-profits' and code permitting 5-fold increase in cobalt royalty.
Congo shocker fells Ivanhoe Mines stock
Vancouver-based company headed by billionaire mining financier Robert Friedland loses 11% of its value after DRC stuns with new mining code.
Bidders for $500m Canada streaming deal as cobalt price surges–report
Reuters reports Vale has hired bankers to put together world's first ever cobalt streaming deal worth up to $500 million at its Voisey's Bay mine in Canada.
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.
