CHARTS: Copper mining profits top $100 billion a year, but where are the new mines?

Copper mining company profits topped $100 billion two years in a row, but building a new mine now takes on average 16 years.

Frik Els | June 8, 2023 | 9:43 am

Wall Street Journal sees a debt-ceiling copper glow up

A look at the esteemed financial paper’s case for calling copper the next big bull market.

Frik Els | May 19, 2023 | 12:12 pm

Top stocks plummet after Chile brings lithium industry under state control

Shares in the world’s top two lithium producers are tanking after Chile said their contracts will not be renewed and prices for the battery metal continue to fall.

Frik Els | April 21, 2023 | 10:26 am

Fresh blow to cobalt price bulls as prices sink below $20,000

Fresh blow to cobalt bulls as prices sink below $20,000

With massive stockpiles from Tenke Fungurume in the DRC released for export, cobalt prices face further pressure.

Frik Els | April 19, 2023 | 10:47 am

Copper price is rallying but China stimulus could be “phantom tailwind”

Recent stimulus in China, consumer of half the world's copper, is the weakest in 20 years relative to the size of its economy -- report.

Frik Els | April 14, 2023 | 9:53 am

CHARTS: Mining’s top 50 companies top $1.4 trillion value amid M&A fever

World’s top 50 mining companies build on gains in the first quarter of 2023, but remain well below valuations this time last year as M&A fever grips the sector.

Frik Els | April 11, 2023 | 11:28 am

CHARTS: There is a chasm between gold price and gold mining stocks

CHARTS: There is a chasm between gold price and gold mining stock valuations

Gold mining stock prices have to double to get back to 30-year average relative to the gold price and the S&P 500.

Frik Els | April 4, 2023 | 12:58 pm

Mining companies operating in Russia improve in environmental transparency rating - WWF

CHART: Demand is soaring, but global mining is not expanding

Mining companies have to run just to stand still, but expansion capex in the global mining sector as a percentage of profits has halved in a decade.

Frik Els | March 30, 2023 | 10:56 am

Value of battery metals in newly-sold EVs tripled on rampant lithium, nickel prices

MINING.COM’s EV Metal Index surged to just under $27 billion in 2022 thanks to surging lithium and nickel prices, but January saw a 50% month-on-month drop.

Frik Els | March 28, 2023 | 2:01 pm