Mongolia opens new door to world’s richest coking coal fields
Mongolia is offering infrastructure companies ways to swap investments for equity in 6.4 billion tonne Tavan Tolgoi met coal deposit.
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:
Mine collapse kills 28 in north Afghanistan
A coal mine in a remote area of Samangan province collapsed on Saturday after a gas explosion.
VIDEO: Investment banker turned gold broker makes home deliveries
Savneet Singh at age 29 and at the height of the global financial crisis co-founded a concierge service for gold investors.
Family Christmas-tree farm 0. Gold mine 1
The Higgins family who rejected $300,000 for their 3ha property were the only owners still standing in the way of the 90,000oz/year gold mine.
Queensland wants to take uranium mining applications next year
Last uranium mine in the Australian state closed more than three decades ago.
New superfast silver, platinum-based drive destined for your smartphone
Flash drives will start to make way for silver-ion memory devices which are much faster, lasts longer, hold more information and use nanowatts of power.
VIDEO: Rio Tinto’s robot army
Rio Tinto will mine three iron ore deposits using self-driving trucks and launch autonomous trains and drills in 2014.
Dennis Gartman on gold and Murphy’s Law
Everything that could go wrong did go wrong for gold in September.
Gold price drops to 5-week low. Goldman sees short term sub-$1,000 risk
Jeffrey Currie, the head of commodities research at Goldman Sachs, sees gold overshooting on the downside and the metal could "clearly trade below $1,000."
CHARTS: Australia, Canada met coal outlook OK. US not so much
50% of US met coal exporters lose money at today's prices.
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.
