What are the stages a project must pass through to become a mine?
There are many hoops a project must clear to become a mine. It takes on average 10 years for a project to […]
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:
Citigroup: ‘Don’t be tempted’ to buy gold mining stocks
Gold mining stocks have been hit harder than the gold price, but rallies from depressed levels will be short and are "difficult to time".
Fight to oust Cliffs board just got real ugly
Casablanca: litigation possible after iron ore miner's board issue "explicit threat to shareholders: vote for the incumbent board or destroy the company".
30 years after Hunt bros, scramble to take over London silver fix
The LME is among firms vying to take over spot price benchmark system, 30 years after being forced out by Hunt Brothers who famously cornered the market in the late 1970s.
Gold price slides again despite largest ETF inflows since 2012
Investors buy a net 8.4 tonnes in world's largest gold-backed ETF, the biggest buying spree since October 2012 when gold was at $1,800 an ounce.
Iron ore price hits fresh lows as Beijing warns of supply flood
Shares in producers fall after China's powerful central planning agency says country's "high steel demand period has passed" and inventories will stay high.
Gartman: ‘Gold is breaking down, it just looks horrible’
Tuesday's drop after months of quiet unnerved traders and gold bulls who'd expected the metal to break higher.
Weak gold price brings carnage to mining stocks
Billions wiped off gold miners' market value Tuesday.
Massive Canadian iron ore mine gets final go ahead
Alderon Iron Ore gets green light to start construction of $1 billion iron ore mine with Chinese backing near Labrador City.
Gold price plunges to February lows
A one-two-three punch saw the gold price drop more than 2% on Tuesday to trade at a three-and-a-half month low and $115 an ounce below its 2014 high.
CHART: Friday massacre for mining stocks but copper price pulls out of nosedive
Historic down day for gold and silver prices caused double digit losses for precious metals stocks but copper miners came off relatively lightly.
