Supply cuts a ‘step change’ for uranium price
New report upgrades outlook for uranium sector after two top producers remove a combined 15% of U3O8 from the global market in 2018.
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:
China’s copper, zinc output jumps to 3-year high on stronger prices
Domestic iron ore mines are also humming.
Iron ore, coking coal prices are soaring
Iron ore price jumps 5.2%, coking coal rises to levels last seen during cyclone Debbie as Chinese mills restock.
CHART: High flying metals to fall back to earth in 2018
Panel of investment banks and research houses forecast declines in copper, zinc, lead and palladium prices in 2018.
BMW throws fuel on cobalt, lithium fire: ‘we’ll need 10x as much’
“We’ve been intensively focusing on how to manage future cobalt supply for a year now. Before, it wasn’t clear just how quickly demand will accelerate.”
This is how much copper, nickel, cobalt an electric vehicle world needs
Glencore's all in to supply surging demand for copper, nickel and cobalt from electric vehicle boom but CEO Ivan Glasenberg has "zero interest" in lithium.
Zinc price dodges bullet
Top zinc producer Glencore's total output to dip next year despite restarting its Australian mine.
Shares in Toronto-listed Katanga Mining surge 50% on Congo mine restart
Glencore's Toronto-listed Katanga Mining subsidiary set to produce nearly a third of world's cobalt, as prices of battery metal more than doubles.
Cobalt 27 spree sends cobalt price to fresh 9-year high
CEO Anthony Milewski: Cobalt 27’s stockpile of cobalt “is a way for investors to speculate on the price of cobalt, plain and simple.”
Gold price: Hedge funds cut bullish bets by most on record
Gold price under renewed pressure as managed money speculators up shorts – bets that gold can be bought back at a lower price in future – three-fold.
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.