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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]
[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...
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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]
[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.
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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]
[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]
[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]

[2008-11-3] Rhenium defies downturn
Already a few weeks now into the largest financial crisis since 1929, there are few items that have resisted the force of gravity. Except funeral directors, debt collectors and bicycle tyre repair kit makers, all have joined the fall out.... [More]

[2008-10-24] There is always a metal lining to a Financial Problem
‘So, farewell then Ultima Thule…’as Private Eye’s Poet Laureate, EJ Thribb, might have poetized…at the news that Iceland’s banks had gone down the geyser... [More]

[2008-10-15] Can resource-rich Zambia keep more of its wealth?
Can "resource rich" but "infrastructure poor" countries such as Zambia ever obtain a fair share of their country's wealth? The last few years, after copper prices rose from $0.62 per lb in the late 1990's to about $4 per lb... [More]

[2008-8-15] Rhenium prices hold while metals with investment funds behind them fall
Rhenium overtakes Pd & Ru to becomes 6th most precous traded metal. What greater evidence is needed of the pernicious effect of investment funds on our metals markets than the desperate decline of Rhodium?.. [More]

[2008-6-2] Why does LME want to get involved with minor metals ?
Anthony Lipmann offers a personal view on the London Metal Exchange`s possible plans to launch contracts in minor metals and ferro-alloys.Anthony Lipmann offers a personal.. [More]

[2008-1-29] Mr Pip and the story of RTZ
A career in metals, 29 years so far, is time enough to ponder some of the moral conflicts associated with this industry. Are we - the beneficiaries of hauling resources from God’s earth - doomed always to be exploiters?...[More]

[2008-1-7] The View from Rhenium Gables
Here at Rhenium Gables we are mulching the soil and planting our winter Rhenium seedlings in readiness for next year’s crop much as we have done for the last 15 years. However, this year, with the price nearing $10,000 per kg...[More]

[2007-12-28] The Hedge Fund Misnomer or ‘What have they done to our ‘hedge’?
The small Jewish metalocrat sat across the table looking out over the panorama of the Mont Blanc range of mountains from his eyrie in Crans Montana and turned to my father and said ‘So, I have copper cathode coming out of Zambia...[More]

[2007-9-27] New Rhenium supply from Poland comes on stream but will it close world deficit?
Anthony Lipmann attends the official opening of KGHM ECORENs new Hydrometallurgical Plant for the recovery of Rhenium. "I am here in Poland to see the opening of the new KGHM Hydrometallurgical Plant which will recover
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