Bumi bummer: Rothschild dynasty sucked into Indonesian black coal hole
‘Nat Rothschild will never raise another dollar from anybody.’
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:
This week in Indian gold: imports on the up again, finance ministry considered monetizing bullion
There is huge pent up demand after 18 months of declining imports.
Saudi women banned from working in gold industry
Saudi Arabia's National Committee for Precious Metals and Gems finds that female employment in the sector would be "disastrous" for investment. Reason? Gold store robberies.
Ugly end to bearish week for gold
Traders are now worrying that without a clear catalyst to push prices higher, gold will continue to drift lower in the coming weeks.
Delays at Barrick’s Pascua Lama
Local communities are appealing for an injuction against the ambitious project high in the Andes.
Billionaire Frank Giustra: Gold will be the final bubble
Billionaire movie mogul and mining financier Frank Giustra says when all other asset bubbles have burst everyone will be in gold.
The richest man in history amassed a $400 billion fortune mining gold and salt in Africa
Adjusted for inflation of course.
Turquoise Hill selling off after Mongolia officially says it wants more of Oyu Tolgoi
The massive copper-gold mine is back in the sights of Mongolia's government.
Gold is getting hammered again by US economic data
US consumers are shopping again. But not for gold.
New study says Brazil is about to flood export markets with iron ore
Brazil is slated to produce 820 million tonne of iron ore in 2016, a more than 60% jump from today's levels. How will Chinese demand keep up?
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.