Copper $ 4.523 / lb 3.30%
Brent Crude Oil $ 64.01 / bbl 2.25%
Palladium $ 906.7 / ozt 0.24%
Crude Oil $ 61.5 / bbl 2.16%
Natural Gas $ 3.527 / Btu 0.20%
Silver Futures $ 31.91 / ozt 2.56%
Aluminum Futures $ 2300 / ton -0.97%
Micro Gold Futures $ 3272.1 / ozt 1.55%
Micro Silver Futures $ 31.91 / ozt 2.56%
Platinum $ 944.6 / ozt 1.59%
Gold Futures $ 3244.6 / ozt 1.58%
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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:

Blown away: 70% of Europe’s new power generation comes from renewables

According to a new European Wind Energy Association report a record 71% of all the new power generating capacity installed in the Europe Union in 2011 came from solar panels, offshore and onshore wind turbines and other renewable energy sources. This at the same time as the world's largest clean coal power station project appears stuck in the starting blocks.
Frik Els | February 5, 2012 | 9:00 pm
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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