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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:

China factory data roils copper stocks – Freeport down 9%

China slowdown watch: Graff Diamonds pulls IPO

Graff Diamonds only received half the expected orders. Its announcement comes just one week after China Nonferrous Mining Corp pulled the planned listing of its Zambian copper assets in Hong Kong.
Frik Els | May 30, 2012 | 9:22 pm
Blanchard: Fed overselling rate hike great for gold

Olympic Dam decision pushed to the wire

If the board of the world's largest miner does not make a decision on the giant copper-gold-uranium-silver project in South Australia's outback by 8 December then it would lose all approvals and royalties concessions.
Frik Els | May 30, 2012 | 9:00 pm

Glenstrata takes shape this week

The prospectus giving details of the creation of a $90 billion mining and commodities trading behemoth will find its way to the inboxes of shareholders this week.
Frik Els | May 27, 2012 | 10:04 pm

Return to the Rio Tinto

If there is one mining project anywhere in the world that could warrant the old Hollywood blockbuster title of Back to the Future it must be EMED Mining’s Rio Tinto copper venture in Andalucía, Spain.
Frik Els | May 27, 2012 | 10:01 pm
China factory data roils copper stocks – Freeport down 9%

Freaky Friday looms for gold

Gold faces a crucial test in the coming holiday-shortened week with crucial US jobs numbers out on Friday and the ongoing Eurozone crisis making or breaking the yellow metal's assault on $1,600 and higher.
Frik Els | May 27, 2012 | 9:26 pm
Featured Post

One of the strangest chapters in copper mining is drawing to a close

When copper prices are swinging this wildly it’s easy to lose sight of the giant hole that exists in the industry where dynamite meets bedrock.
Frik Els | April 10, 2025 | 1:40 pm