Report: Half of gold miners in Africa could be children
Many children and teenagers skip school to work at the gold mines where they can earn $14 during a six-day week workweek.
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:
Areva mothballs Namibia uranium mine
The price of the nuclear fuel is down 10% in just the last three months.
Iron ore: The rollercoaster ride has only just started
The transformation of the iron ore market over the last few years has been nothing less than stunning. Those with nerves of steel can look forward to even higher highs and lower lows.
Iron ore pulls back from $120 despite fresh Chinese infrastructure spending
The country's railways ministry is upping its investment for a third time this year – the annual budget for 2012 is now a round $100 billion.
VIDEO: The female mind and the gold standard
Just when you thought all possible arguments for and against the gold standard have been covered...
Investors salivating over Aurico payout after it offloads Mexico properties for $750 million
AuRico Gold shot up 21% on Wednesday on massive volumes, after announcing it has offloaded a mine and two exploration projects and sold half of a development in Mexico to a local company.
Up to 2,000 Chinese miners on their way to British Columbia to fill jobs Canadians can’t do safely
The full time workers follow $1.4 billion in Chinese funding for two coal projects in the northeast of the province because Canadians "just don't have the experience" to operate underground equipment safely.
Gold’s losing streak post US jobs surprise continues
The better-than-expected non-farm payrolls numbers may mean that the Federal Reserve will end QE3 sooner rather than later.
Osisko coy about 1 million hectares staked in ’emerging gold belt’ in Mexico
Montreal's Osisko says it has staked out some one million hectares of ground in an – as yet unnamed – "emerging gold rich mineral belt in Mexico".
Oyu Tolgoi: All that’s left is for China to flip the switch
First ore from the massive copper-gold-silver mine is expected to be processed within six weeks of China and Mongolia signing the final power agreement.
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 […]
