Oct 15, 20153 min readHow Much Metal Does a Man Need?I often think of Tolstoy’s story, ‘How much land does a man need?’ (1886) in relation to vast ambition often found in metal people. Let...
Sep 30, 20153 min readThe True Cost of ManipulationIt was a great wheeze wasn’t it? Buy up a few LME warehouses. Stuff them with metal and make it difficult for title-owners to deliver...
Sep 9, 20157 min readDignitas for Metal MerchantsIs there an answer to the question of succession for private metal trading companies? Or is corporate euthanasia the only alternative? In...
Jul 23, 20153 min readWill the TESLA battery revolutionise demand for Lithium?It would be striking to learn that Lithium’s name is derived from the greek word lithos – stone, a word which itself comes from ‘litos’...
Jul 8, 20152 min readWhat the Rare Earth fiasco teaches usSir, Your obituary on the death of U.S. Rare Earth miner, Molycorp, (June 25th 2015, Boom in once ‘rare earth’ metals ends in miner’s...