Aug 31, 20163 minMining is Dangerous (best to remember it when you complain about price or reductions to production)Have we become so far removed from mining that we have forgotten it is a dangerous business? This is a question that is not distant to...
Aug 9, 20166 minThe Tribulations of LithiumThere are few more frustrating things for a metal merchant than a train leaving the station without you on it. The lithium train is one...
Jul 29, 20166 minRain Stops Play at FarnboroughThe Farnborough International Airshow, the world’s largest biennial exhibition for aerospace, defence and space opened on Monday July 11;...
Jun 29, 20166 minDoes This Mean Curtains for the UK’s Eurovision Entry?If ever there was an analogy for the stomach-churning bureaucracy of the EU – it was the Eurovision Song Contest. Year after year...
Jun 17, 20166 minWelcome to the Rare Metal AgeDavid S Abraham is in London at the Royal Institute of International Affairs to talk about his book, The Elements of Power, to a small...
May 16, 20167 minJob Hunting in ZambiaBy Mabvuto Chibende Everyone needs a job. So, what’s it like job-hunting in Zambia? I grew up in Mufulira, a mining town located in the...
May 11, 20164 minIs it a metal, is it a glass?Out here in the thicket of minor metals applications, procreating like so many iodic crystals on a hafnium wire, here is one of the...
Apr 2, 20166 minA Letter from MufuliraBy Mabvuto Chibende Dear Reader, it may not be easy to imagine living in a town where it feels as if almost every person of working age...
Mar 31, 20166 minTurning Ploughshares into Swords (Why War is Good for the Metals Business)At a meeting of some of the writers and sponsors of Lord Copper (www.lord-copper.com) towards the end of last year, there was a debate...