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[2012-01-05] MMTA Metal Statistics - Zirconium
A glance at the supply-demand picture of the zirconium market reveals the importance of the role of the great nuclear nations. Without France, USA and Russia there would be no world trade in Zirconium. ... [More]
[2012-01-05] MMTA Metal Statistics - Hafnium
The pie charts for Hafnium show an imbalance between supply and demand which is further exacerbated by its disjointed structure – that is to say that out of the total supply of 68mt only 30mt of production is made by the... [More]
[2011-11-25] MMTA Metal Statistics - Rhenium
When compared to the 15mln tons of copper from which it is sourced, rhenium's approx 46mt supply and 54mt demand is by any standards small. But this small market has big applications an un-substitutable 3% addition ... [More]
[2011-07-20] Mufulira Lunch
Your Excellency, Members of the MMTA, Teachers & Pupils of Ansford School in Somerset, Teachers & Pupils of Mufulira High School, Ladies and Gentlemen welcome to the National Liberal Club... [More]
[2010-11-02] The Trouble with Tantalum
At the Almeida Theatre in Islington (London) a play depicting life, trapped in the Congo conflict over minerals came to an end in June 2010, after a very successful run in the UK.  ‘Ruined’, by Lynn Nottage has been a hit... [More]
[2010-10-22] Los 33 – Lost Opportunity
A week following the rescue of Los 33, thirty-seven miners were caught in an underground gas explosion at the Pingyu No 4 coal mine owned by The Pingyu Coal and Electric Co at Yuhou in Henan, China... [More]
[2010-10-08] "A visit to Mufulira" - by Rachel Swindon
After a long flight we arrived at Ndola airport and were met by Howard, a student from the town we were heading to, Mufulira. The journey was unlike any bus journey that I have ever experienced... [More]
[2010-07-17] This metal life - Till Death Do Us Trade
There is a kind of mad obsession that gradually seizes and grips the organism once introduced to metal trading... [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]

[2008-1-29] 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]

[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]
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