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Brent Crude Oil $ 68.82 / bbl 0.51%
Palladium $ 1275 / ozt 1.27%
Crude Oil $ 65.51 / bbl 0.55%
Natural Gas $ 3.077 / Btu -0.52%
Silver Futures $ 38.295 / ozt 0.03%
Aluminum Futures $ 2589 / ton -0.24%
Micro Gold Futures $ 3394.7 / ozt 0.44%
Micro Silver Futures $ 38.295 / ozt -0.07%
Platinum $ 1435.6 / ozt 0.13%
Gold Futures $ 3336.8 / ozt 0.47%
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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.

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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. 
Frik Els | July 21, 2025 | 6:15 pm