Lithium price plunges to 4-year low
Market for battery metal in grip of brutal bear market and experts say prices may not have bottomed yet.
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:
Gold price rally surprised even world’s top 30 analysts
Even the most bullish forecasts fell well short of gold's stellar performance in 2019.
Iran “standing down” drops gold price by most in nearly 7 years
$124 billion worth of gold futures traded in New York as price plunges 3.7% or $60 an ounce after Trump eases Iran war concerns.
Gold price scales $1,600 after Iran attacks US military base
Up nearly $40 an ounce in after hours trade to fresh six-year high.
Top 50 biggest mining companies enter 2020 near $1 trillion value
MINING.COM’s ranking of the world’s 50 largest mining companies based on market value shows a revived industry entering the 2020s, but with […]
MINING.COM: Top 10 most popular posts of 2019
It's been a tumultuous year in mining and the most read articles of 2019 show an industry grappling with technological change, market volatility and climate change, but still unafraid to take moonshots.
Copper price jumps to 7-month high on Trump trade deal
Bloomberg is reporting US president Trump has signed off on a phase-one deal with China.
Copper price rally builds on all-time high China imports
Copper price hits 20-week high as Chinese concentrate imports surge and stockpiles in the country drop to six year low.
4 charts that say this time the copper price surge could last
"For one, copper supply is probably less ample than the apparent consumption data indicate."
US payrolls light fire under copper price
Copper bulls use robust economic data and progress on trade talks to push the price higher.
US rare earth stock cracks top 50 mining companies for the first time
Non-Chinese rare earth producers have been conspicuously absent from mining’s top tier, now worth a collective $1.5 trillion, up $200 billion year to date.