Mining in Canada pays well but wage growth has sunk to near the bottom
Canada’s mining and oil and gas workers have the country’s highest average weekly earnings by a wide margin. They are also, this fall, among the…
Articles by Frik Els
North America is building rare earth plants faster than it is building rare earth engineers
On Aug. 7, as U.S. President Donald Trump hosted mining executives at a roundtable in Washington, representatives of all 14 accredited U.S. mining schools attended…
Comment: Gold is tariff-proof. Canada has $11 billion a year of it stuck in permitting
Canada spent the first half of September answering Washington’s trade escalation dollar for dollar after the United States imposed 50% tariffs on a broad range…
Lithium price: Fitch raises forecast, warns rally has outrun fundamentals
The most active lithium carbonate contract on the Guangzhou Futures Exchange closed at 152,500 yuan (about $22,500) a tonne on Wednesday, up 11% from July’s…
CHART: Mining stocks enjoy a $210-billion fortnight
So far in August the combined U.S. dollar market capitalization of the MINING.COM TOP 50 rose from $2.17 trillion to $2.38 trillion. That is $210…
Lithium sinks to five-month low amid 2027 glut fears
Lithium futures in China sank to a five-month low on Tuesday as expectations that a wave of restarted mines will tip the market back into…
Copper price nearing US record as premium doubles, Shanghai stockpiles drop 82%
Copper surged to its highest in more than a month on Tuesday as evidence of a tightening physical market in China piled up and traders…
Acid test: IEA warns copper supply outlook has “worsened considerably”
Copper’s sulphuric acid market has been thrown into chaos by the Middle East conflict and Beijing’s export ban, according to the International Energy Agency, which…
BMI hikes copper price forecast 6.7% on supply deficits
Industry research firm BMI lifted its 2026 average copper price forecast by 6.7% to $12,700 per tonne, citing converging supply-side pressures, tariff-driven tightness and AI-fuelled…
CHART: Copper price surge mints 23 unicorn mines
Tech venture capitalists invest in startups and get to call them unicorns. The official definition of a unicorn is a startup with a $1 billion valuation while still…
CHART: First Quantum’s Peru project joins copper giants
First Quantum Minerals (TSX: FM) has outlined the La Granja project it holds with Rio Tinto (ASX. LSE, NYSE: RIO) in Peru as one of…
BHP now expects nearly 2M tonnes copper production after record Escondida throughput
BHP (NYSE, LSE, ASX: BHP) reinforced confidence in its fiscal 2026 outlook on Wednesday, with solid copper and iron ore performance underpinning expectations that production…