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Feb 3, 20122 min readLest We Forget…In your leader, ‘Lest we Forget’, January 20, 2012, you commemorate the deaths of 204 miners who died at the Hester iron-ore mine, New...
Oct 5, 20111 min readReferee is up for sale at the very time independent judgment is most needed…Sir, Perhaps lost in the dazzling excitement of the potential sale of the London Metal Exchange (“Goldman Sachs to become biggest winner...
Oct 3, 20113 min readKeep a historical perspective on Rhenium – and be careful not to look at the economy…In 1991, when the Soviet Union broke up, Kazakhstan had an old stockpile of Rhenium thought to be 15 mt. This was sold to the West and...
May 15, 20115 min readSeparating Facts and Fiction in the Rhenium MarketPresident Kennedy said: The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth...
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....