North Korea breathes new life into gold price, mining stocks
Safe haven buying lifts gold price 1.8% to 8-week high sparking stock market gains for top producers.
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:
Copper price jumps to highest since 2014
Customs data show rebound in Chinese copper imports in July.
Copper price surges to 2-year high
Chinese data, tight supply light fire under copper price launching copper mining stocks higher – Freeport up 15%.
Antofagasta, Barrick avoid Chile mine strike
Zaldívar produced 102,000 tonnes of copper in 2016.
UK Serious Fraud Office launches probe into Rio Tinto over Simandou
"Suspected corruption in the conduct of business in the Republic of Guinea by the Rio Tinto group, its employees and others associated with it."
Trump slump in dollar lifts gold price to 4-week high
US dollar falls to more than 2-year low as Trump's pro-growth agenda stalls in Washington.
Toronto firm closing South African platinum mine
The Bokoni mine, a joint venture between Atlatsa and Anglo Platinum, produces around 150,000 ounces of platinum group metals per year.
US steel production falls back in June
After strong start to 2017, US steel output growth for the first six months slows to just 1.3%.
Price recovery sparks domestic Chinese copper, iron ore production boom
As steel production reaches all-time high Chinese miners pump out most iron ore since 2015 while refined copper output jumps 12% to highest in 18 months.
BHP iron ore output hits new record but copper production tanks
World number one miner's Pilbara mines produce 268m tonnes for the year, but strike at Escondida sees copper output slide 16%.
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 […]
