2015: Twilight of the Supercycle
A look back at mining and metals in 2015 through MINING.com's most popular stories of the year.
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 crashes to six-year low
Bearishness overwhelms gold market as price drops 2.5% to lowest since October 2009.
Gold price rallies on rate hike
Up 1% despite rally in dollar after first interest rate hike in the US since 2006.
The world’s 10 highest mines
Eight of the world's highest elevation mines are in one country
Gold price: Still 1 in 5 chance of Fed surprise
Gold price nears 6-year lows as hedge funds place massive bearish bets on gold, but no rate hike should spark "aggressive short covering" and a price spike.
Some think not too soon for Anglo obituary
Anglo-American perceived as "the most likely of the diversified mining majors to go bust" even if it "goes down fighting".
Goldcorp caught in middle of Mexican gang war
Rival gangs are preying on a small community at Goldcorp's Los Filos gold mine in Mexico's Guerrero state leaving at least 26 people dead since mid-2014.
Investors going crazy for world no 1 commodity company
For all the wrong reasons.
Gold price: Physical-backed ETFs become one-way bet
SPDR Gold Shares (GLD), world's largest gold-backed ETF, has seen no inflows for 36 days straight as investors pull out 62 tonnes in seven weeks.
Turquoise Hill jumps on 2016 guidance
Vancouver-based company said it is waiting for "final notice to proceed" for $5 billion expansion of giant copper-gold mine in Mongolia mine.
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.