Mar 31, 20166 min readTurning 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)Â towards the end of last year, there was a debate...
Mar 2, 20165 min readHow Rhodium lost its Mojo (and how, like Austin Powers, it might get it back…)
Feb 8, 20164 min readA China DiaryJinzhou I have been in China twenty-four hours and no one has mentioned the crisis. Perhaps it is just too cold to talk, as the...
Nov 4, 20154 min readTo Hf or Hf not? Who cares about Hafnium?Perhaps the recent history of Hafnium can best illustrate the question – ‘What are minor metal merchants for?’ A minor metals trader of...
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...
