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 [2011-10-05] Referee is up for sale at the very time independent judgment is most needed...Sir, Perhaps lost in the dazzling excitement of the potential sale of the London Metal Exchange ("Goldman Sachs to become biggest winner in sale of LME" – FT, report, 03/10/11), is the concept of good stewardship..... [More] |
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| [2011-10-03] Keep a historical perspective on Rhenium - and be careful not to look at the economy... In 1991, when Soviet Union broke up, Kazakhstan had an old stockpile thought to be 15 mt. This was sold to the West and kept prices low for the first half of the 1990s while this was absorbed.... [More] |
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| [2011-05-15] Separating Facts and Fiction in the Rhenium Market President Kennedy said: ‘The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth persistent, persuasive and unrealistic’.... [More] |
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| [2011-04-20]
How the EU Chemical Directive Created a Dark Age in Europe At Rolls Royce Plc in Derby, they are precision-casting the turbine blades for the Trent 1000, the lead engine for theBoeing Dreamliner. Developed by materials scientists at Rolls.... [More] |
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Letter to Editor - Financial Times/ April 11th 2011 Sir, As "Investors flock to Glencore IPO" (April 6) one part of the world at least is not overjoyed at the news. In Zambia, where the copper industry was privatised in 2000 under pressure from the IMF.... [More] |
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| [2010-07-16]
How to reach a fair price for Rhenium? Arguments about the basis on which commodities are priced is an ever-green topic. In April 2010, BHP and Vale, promptly advised their main consumer, China, that future iron ore sales would .... [More] |
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| [2010-05-04]
Rhenium: Is it Critical? Much attention around the world is being given to the subject of criticality in metals. So let us examine Rhenium against this set of criteria.... [More] |
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| [2009-11-16]
Metal Stockpiles – Time to Learn the Lessons of History? “We’re good at two things in Washington”, lobbyist, Jeff Green, a delegate to The ‘Critical and Strategic Metals’ conference on October 21st-23rd 2009 said, “Doing nothing…and over-reacting”.... [More] |
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| [2009-09-21]
RHENIUM - TEN YEARS ON The following article is created from the notes for a talk given at Phoenixx Intl’s Metals Day, Pittsburgh, 21 Sep 2009 Ten years ago, almost to the day, I was invited to Pittsburgh to talk about Rhenium... [More] |
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| [2009-05-08]
Rhenium – The Istanbul Connection Trying to find a link between Istanbul and Rhenium is a bit tenuous, but visiting Hagia Sophia, the famous Byzantine Christian Church (now a Museum), I almost fell over one. [More] |
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| [2009-03-02]
Full steam ahead to the iceberg… ... as the London Metal Exchange pushes for Molybdenum and Cobalt to be traded on the exchange. [More] |
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| [2009-02-06]
Rhenium 2009 and beyond It could be said that the only type of melting that has been going on recently has been that of the melt-down of financial institutions. Dissolving with them, in the molten liquor of the global economic downturn, have been commodity..... [More] |
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| [2008-12-17]
Four metals seek immunity from recession - Tantalum, Zirconium, Hafnium and Rhenium There is no metal entirely immune from recession but the ones that might hold up better than most, I would suggest, are Tantalum, Zirconium, Hafnium and Rhenium..... [More] |
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| [2008-11-23]
Will aero engine makers be tempted back into Ruthenium now that the spike is over? Producers of Ruthenium missed an opportunity over the last two years when they ignored the demands of aero engine companies who were looking to conclude 5 year fixed price contracts for the metal..... [More] |
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