Jackson Chen
Jackson Chen covers the financial and corporate side of the global mining industry, focusing on commodity price moves, analyst forecasts and capital flows into mining companies. With more than a decade of experience on the beat, he reports concise news on deals, placements and market-moving developments for MINING.COM and Mining.com.au. His coverage links price forecasts, equity raisings and operational events into a continuous picture of how money and risk move through the sector.
Commodity price moves and analyst outlooks
Chen regularly reports on precious and base metal price action, tying spot moves to macro data and institutional forecasts. Recent pieces follow gold’s recovery alongside analyst warnings about persistent headwinds, and copper’s slide as economic data from China weighs on demand expectations. His work also tracks changes in bank price targets, such as adjustments to gold forecasts by major institutions, and examines how those calls feed into sentiment across the mining sector.
In coverage of UBS’s view that gold prices are expected to fall further even as the bank stays long-term bullish, he uses research from the financial sector to frame where investors see value in the metal.
Equity placements, funding rounds and deal-making
Chen devotes substantial attention to the ways mining companies raise and deploy capital.
His reports on placements and fundraisings explain how equity raises from investors such as BlackRock finance exploration campaigns in jurisdictions like Yukon and how smaller placements underpin junior companies’ drilling plans. Coverage of transactions like Boliden’s talks to acquire Votorantim’s controlling stake in zinc producer Nexa highlights the strategic logic and industry context behind major corporate moves.
Across these stories, he foregrounds deal size, investor participation and planned use of proceeds, giving a clear picture of each transaction’s financial structure without straying into commentary.
Operational disruptions, safety events and legal disputes
Beyond markets and deals, Chen reports on operational and regulatory events that alter risk for mining companies and their investors.
His coverage of mine disruptions, such as Cameco’s temporary shutdown of the Cigar Lake uranium mine following issues at the McClean Lake mill, focuses on the operational cause, expected duration and implications for output. He also tracks safety incidents, including fatalities at assets like Endeavour Mining’s Mana site, noting how companies manage to keep production running while addressing the event. Legal and environmental disputes, such as lawsuits challenging rare earth mining approvals in the Mojave Desert, are treated with similar discipline: he sets out the claims, the regulatory decisions in question and the potential consequences for the project involved.
Global mining industry scope
Chen’s beat spans commodities, corporate events and technology across the global mining industry rather than a single geography or metal. In addition to finance-focused stories, his work touches on emerging technologies through coverage of initiatives like lithium test facilities designed to demonstrate new processing routes for deposits such as Thacker Pass.
His consistent attention to commodities, major industry deals and new technologies reflects a broad remit that connects day-to-day market moves with longer-term shifts in how mining companies operate.
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