MINING.COM launches EV Battery Metals Index
The value of metals used in batteries for the nascent electric vehicle industry measured for the first time.
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:
Iron ore, copper prices surge despite China factory data shock
Investors look beyond fall in manufacturing gauge to lowest on record to hopes of massive infrastructure stimulus from Beijing.
Gold price extends losses – down $78
Coronavirus panic drops gold price by as much as 4.8% in heavy afternoon selling, fourth worst trading day in history.
Lithium price: EVs will be $350bn market in just 15 years
Revenues for global energy storage market to grow at 15% per year through 2035, says new study.
Gold price surges as hedge funds wager $9bn on more gains
Biggest one day jump since Brexit vote as gold ETF purchases and hedge funds positioning reach record level.
Gold price surges on pandemic shock to US economy
Gold price up 2% to fresh 7-year high after coronavirus causes first fall in US business activity since 2013 and long term interest rates drop to record low.
Tesla’s China surprise big blow for cobalt, nickel price bulls
Top electric carmaker switches to zero-cobalt, nickel batteries for price sensitive Chinese market.
Gold price at 7-year high as hedge funds, ETF investors pile in
"With the metal moving higher, despite the headwinds from other markets, it is difficult to see what at this stage can halt or pause the rally."
Gold price surge continues – Citi says next stop $2,000
Gold price builds on rally near 7-year high as forecasts call for all-time record price as soon as 12 months from now.
BHP becomes world’s top copper producer
Output at Chile's state-owned producer Codelco dropped sharply in 2019, giving BHP the edge as the globe's number one producer of the metal.
GRAPH: Cobalt price plunge and the EV market
Cobalt prices have plummeted to their lowest level since 2016, as a deluge of supply overwhelms stagnating demand from the electric vehicle […]
