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.

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Kinross opens fourth Russian mine

The up to 300,000oz per year Dvoinoye mine, located in Russia's Chukotka region, near the company's Kupol operation started commercial production in October.

Debt deal talks sink gold price

Shortly after the opening of trade in New York on Friday the gold price plunged more than $30 an ounce to an almost three-month low of $1,259.60 an ounce.
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Copper price drops sharply after trade deal bounce

Pullback comes despite Chinese copper inventories falling by 60% in a single month.