Thursday 4 June 2015

Otmane El Rhazi : Commodity prices weigh heavily on top 40 mining giants

Otmane El Rhazi from Mining Weekly | Ferrous Metals Home.

The tough fight faced by the global mining industry in 2014 would escalate into a brawl this year as mining companies worldwide struggled to emerge from depressed markets, PwC’s Africa Mining Centre of Excellence head Michal Kotze said on Thursday. Widespread government intervention, significant conflicts surrounding strategy debates and other internal industry conflicts, “huge” competition, weakening commodity prices with increasing short-term volatility and rising shareholder activism had left industry on the ropes.

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