Copper price falls as China investment grows at slowest pace on record
Called off strike at world's largest copper mine adds to pressure on copper price now down nearly 20% in little over two months.
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:
Barrick shares bounce on final permits for giant Alaska gold mine
Rough day for world's top gold stage.mining.company ends on high note.
CHARTS: Warning for bears as gold price drops through $1,200
Hedge funds' bearish bets hit new record amid historically low gold price volatility as new report warns of "complacency" and "trend projection".
Stellar rhodium price rally could be coming to an end
Price for scarce precious metal rhodium is up 270% in two years.
No love for KAZ mega copper project
Shares down by a third after London-listed miner pays $900m for Russian copper project that will take another $5.5 billion to build.
Copper price: BHP plans for Escondida strike
BHP said final wage offer rejected on Thursday was "best collective labor contract at a private mine in the country."
Gold price at 18-month low as US investors sour on bullion ETFs
Investment outflows in the US drive global gold demand to lowest since 2009 as strong economy provides "little incentive to buy gold".
Falling Chinese electric car production wrenches lithium price
The world’s automakers “don’t worry about lithium supply anymore” – Simon Moores.
Copper price bears shrug $280B China stimulus package
And Chuquicamata stoppage, looming Escondida strike.
Anglo American approves $5 billion copper project in Peru
30-year reserve life.
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 […]
