Apr 20, 20118 min readHow the EU Chemical Directive created a Dark Age in EuropeAt Rolls-Royce Plc in Derby, they are precision-casting the turbine blades for the Trent 1000, the lead engine for the Boeing Dreamliner....
Apr 11, 20111 min readLetter to Financial Times – No change for Zambians, except to see others getting richSir, 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...
Nov 2, 20107 min readThe Trouble with Tantalum-by Suzannah LipmannAt the Almeida Theatre in Islington (London) a play depicting life, trapped in the Congo conflict over minerals came to an end in June...
Jul 16, 20102 min readThis metal life – Till Death Do Us TradeThere is a kind of mad obsession that gradually seizes and grips the organism once introduced to metal trading. I have seen it take a...
Nov 16, 20096 min readMetal 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...
Mar 2, 20096 min readFull steam ahead to the iceberg…… as the London Metal Exchange pushes for Molybdenum and Cobalt to be traded on the exchange There is nothing so magnetic as a bad idea....
