Sweeping changes to Myanmar mining laws planned
Less state involvement, possible lifting of ban on ore exports and smoother licensing process envisaged for South Asian nation.
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:
GM’s battery switch more good news for lead
Lowly lead predicted to be 2014's best performing metal.
Fresh protests erupt over Europe’s largest gold project
Thousands of people gathered in the Romanian capital Bucharest and other cities on Sunday in a show of opposition against the Rosia Montana project in Transylvania
Guerrillas bomb Cerrejon coal railway in Colombia
It is the third such attack on Cerrejon infrastructure — a joint venture between Anglo American, BHP Billiton and Xstrata — this year and follows seven incidents in 2012.
Not a Mecca for gold sales this year
Hajj pilgrims are spending 50% less on gold this year.
5,000 march against French uranium miner in Niger
Areva's contract with the Niger government covering 4,500 tonnes per year is up for renegotiation.
China to shut down two coal mines each day
China burns almost as much coal as the rest of the world combined, but it's serious about cleaning up the industry.
Kinross opens fourth Russian mine
The up to 300,000oz per year Dvoinoye mine, located in Russia's Chukotka region, near the company's Kupol operation started commercial production in October.
‘Liquidation binge’ briefly halts gold trading Friday
A "volatility safety type device' halted trading in gold for ten seconds Friday after a 2 million ounce trade was executed.
Debt deal talks sink gold price
Shortly after the opening of trade in New York on Friday the gold price plunged more than $30 an ounce to an almost three-month low of $1,259.60 an ounce.
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 […]
