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How 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...

The True Cost of Manipulation

It 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...

Dignitas for Metal Merchants

Is there an answer to the question of succession for private metal trading companies? Or is corporate euthanasia the only alternative? In...

What the Rare Earth fiasco teaches us

Sir, 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...

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