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Copper bull Friedland dismisses 'barbaric' gold

“WHY invest in gold?” That was the question Ivanhoe Mines chair Robert Friedland asked at the Rule Symposium in Boca Raton, Florida, on Thursday, in a keynote presentation that focused on what he sees as huge demand for the red metal “humanity needs”.

Paul Harris in Florida
 Robert Friedland

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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