North Korea ban lifts coking coal price
Met coal hits 2-month high Friday as Chinese imports of steelmaking coal from totalitarian state drops 75% during first half of the 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.
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Forecasts for uranium price all point up
Uranium improved to an 8-week high this week, but consensus forecasts are for a 35% rise over the next 12 months.
These charts will give silver price bulls hope
Despite hedge funds' bearish bets, silver price's 14-year uptrend is very much intact and investors continue to pour money into silver-backed ETFs.
Polyus grabs all of legendary Sukhoi Log gold deposit
First discovered in 1961, Sukhoi Log in eastern Russia holds 62.8 million ounces of gold.
Iron ore price jumps to 10-week high on China pollution crackdown
Beijing's shuts 120 million tonnes of low-grade steel capacity in six months providing a boost for high-quality ore exporters.
Workers vote to strike at Antofagasta, Barrick mine in Chile
Zaldívar produced more than 100,000 tonnes of copper last year.
Private capital says no to mining
Study shows Q2 2017 new private capital for natural resources investment dropped to lowest since 2011 and not a single mining fund were able to raise money.
Top 50 mining companies reshuffle as Chinese, lithium firms climb rankings
Combined worth of 50 largest mining companies grow to $768 billion during first half of 2017, but a few big names drop down rankings.
China factory surprise lifts copper price to 3-month high
Base metals enjoy one of their best trading weeks of the year – nickel jumps 3.5%, zinc at highest since March.
Iron ore price jumps to 8-week high
Physical markets, not just futures speculation behind the latest rally
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.
