8 hours ago3 minThe Scrapyard Awaits us allMy mother, who died on Sunday 21st July 2024 aged 100 - just like the rest of the family – was in the metals business. But in her case,...
Jul 43 minThe Big PictureWhen I was young in the 1960s our schoolteacher provided each child with a plastic template of the British Isles. Our job was to trace...
Apr 195 minMetal Trading for the young in the South WestIt’s all very well giving advice to young folk via my column in MMTAs Crucible Magazine (as I've been doing for a couple of years), but...
Mar 174 minThe strange case of the sale of Mopani Copper MinesSo, let’s just recap. Just over a hundred years ago copper was found in Northern Rhodesia by two experienced prospectors, Moir & Grey,...
Mar 84 minTo be, or not to be, an agentHis entire family from the east of Poland had been murdered by the Russians in the 1940s. That was except for his mother and father who...
Feb 203 minFrom Kamchatka to Maui - the seafarers' life recalled in poetry and songWhat child has not been bewitched by John Masefield’s poem Sea Fever whose music, once heard, stays for a lifetime? I must go down to the...
Jan 254 minThe human factorAs the sort of person who treated the introduction of the CD with suspicion, I am not best qualified to give my opinion on AI....
Jan 102 minA Port on the Verge of the Desert‘Gaza stands upon the verge of The Desert and bears towards it the same kind of relation as a seaport to the sea’, wrote the great...
Dec 5, 20233 min‘We’ll call you back...’Early in my career I was given a severe talking-to by a colleague who'd left me a message to call back. I confess that in those days I...