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Friedland: Why invest in "barbaric" gold?

"Why invest in gold?" asked Robert Friedland executive co-chair of copper producer Ivanhoe Mines and executive chair of Ivanhoe Electric at the Rule Symposium in Boca Raton, Florida, USA Thursday, in a keynote presentation that focused on what he sees as huge demand for the red metal "humanity needs".

Paul Harris in Boca Raton, Florida, USA
Ivanhoe Mines' Robert Friedland

Ivanhoe Mines' Robert Friedland

Friedland said the efforts to undertake an energy transition and limit global warming "will take an astronomic amount of mining to try and limit that," which would produce "the revenge of the miners" although...

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