Dr. Chris Hinde is responsible for S&P Global Market Intelligence State of the Market reports, and runs the ‘Mining Insight’ training courses. Chris is a Mining Engineer with BSc/PhD from Cardiff University and has extensive practical experience. This includes underground work with Anglo American Corp. in South Africa, consultancy with SRK in Johannesburg and Golder Associates in the U.K., and stockbroking with Schroder Securities in London. Mining experience includes work in Botswana, Malaysia and Turkey.
Before joining S&P Global Market Intelligence, Chris was the Editorial Director of Aspermont U.K., in charge of the weekly Mining Journal and instrumental in launching the Mines & Money conferences.
The price of copper fell March 26 to its lowest level since December 2017, and despite a slight recovery at the beginning of April, three-month copper prices are threatening to break below the 200-day moving average. There are several indicators signaling a weaker copper market, and the latest issue of S&P Global Market Intelligence's Commodity Briefing Service noted that total...
Zinc prices dropped sharply in March, with the cash price down 5.6% month over month, to close the first quarter at US$3,284/tonne; see graph below. The three-month contract on the London Metal Exchange averaged US$3,267/t in March, down 6.6% from the February average. This is the steepest monthly fall since August 2015, and prices have continued to decline in the first few tra...
The following research article is an excerpt of the State of the Market: Mining report for Q4 2017, a detailed analysis of mining industry performance that includes expert commentary from S&P Global Market Intelligence. Last year, we saw the first annual increase in exploration budgets for nonferrous metals after four consecutive years of declining expenditure. Having plunged t...
