Mining in 2018: Copper price to power on
Markets where technology hasn’t substantially shortened the supply cycle and where cost are rising (ie copper) have the greatest long-term upside in prices
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:
Solgold shares surge on latest drilling at giant Ecuador copper project
Brisbane-based company promised maiden resource for Cascabel copper-gold porphyry on the Andean belt before the end of the year.
Yamana Gold shares jump 5% on asset sale
Agnico-Eagle, the Toronto-based company's partner in giant Canadian Malartic mine, buys the JV's exploration assets for $162m.
Copper price powers on
Eleven straight sessions of gains lift copper price to within sight of three-year highs.
Political crisis pushes out auction of giant Peru copper project again
Auction of $2 billion Michiquillay project in northern Peru slated for this week is canceled by the embattled government of President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski.
Value of top 50 stage.mining.companies surge $140 billion in 2017
More than half the 2017 combined market cap gains for the world's largest listed miners accrued to just five firms as gold producers drop out of top 10.
Supply cuts a ‘step change’ for uranium price
New report upgrades outlook for uranium sector after two top producers remove a combined 15% of U3O8 from the global market in 2018.
China’s copper, zinc output jumps to 3-year high on stronger prices
Domestic iron ore mines are also humming.
Iron ore, coking coal prices are soaring
Iron ore price jumps 5.2%, coking coal rises to levels last seen during cyclone Debbie as Chinese mills restock.
CHART: High flying metals to fall back to earth in 2018
Panel of investment banks and research houses forecast declines in copper, zinc, lead and palladium prices in 2018.
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 […]
