First orders under $455m potash deal for Vancouver junior
Encanto says will sign deal with existing producer to fulfil contract with state-owned Indian trader for 2m tonnes of potash per 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:
Copper price falls to 8-week low
Strike at Freeport's giant Peru mine takes offline world's three biggest mines, but worries about demand drops copper after huge jump in warehouse stocks.
Iron ore price drops to 1-month low, coking coal rebounds
Iron ore stockpiles at Chinese ports reach record high, but Beijing steel and coal capacity cuts should lend support to high-grade imports, met coal prices.
Gold price at 1-month low brings more pain for mining stocks
As 2017 gold price rally begins to look shaky, top listed gold producers are being punished disproportionately.
Stillwater Mining takeover needs more study
US Foreign Investment Committee scrutinizing South African gold miner's $2.2 billion offer for the only US platinum, palladium producer.
Gold price correction sinks mining stocks
Heavy losses across the board – Barrick down 4.6% in massive volumes and second tier Canadian miners hardest hit.
Gold, silver prices are getting clobbered
Gold suffers its worst trading day of 2017 while silver is down 4.2%.
Copper price jumps on Grasberg grind, Escondida escalation
Freeport sees "fundamental shift" at iconic mine as Indonesian spat gets heated and dispute at giant Escondida copper mine in floods-hit Chile turns ugly.
China closing 150 gold mines
Top gold producing country wants to modernize and consolidate its mining industry.
Copper price: Escondida deal beginning to look distant
BHP Billiton and union at world's largest copper mine can't even agree whether talks are happening or not.
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.