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....
Apr 11, 20111 min readLetter to Financial Times – No change for Zambians, except to see others getting richSir, As “Investors flock to Glencore IPO” (April 6) one part of the world at least is not overjoyed at the news. In Zambia, where the...
Nov 2, 20107 min readThe Trouble with Tantalum-by Suzannah LipmannAt the Almeida Theatre in Islington (London) a play depicting life, trapped in the Congo conflict over minerals came to an end in June...
Oct 8, 20107 min readA visit to Mufulira – by Rachel SwindonAfter a long flight we arrived at Ndola airport and were met by Howard, a student from the town we were heading to, Mufulira. The journey...
Jul 16, 20102 min readThis metal life – Till Death Do Us TradeThere is a kind of mad obsession that gradually seizes and grips the organism once introduced to metal trading. I have seen it take a...
Jul 16, 20103 min readHow to reach a fair price for Rhenium?Arguments over the basis on which commodities are priced is an ever-green topic. In April 2010, BHP and Vale, promptly advised their main...
May 4, 20104 min readRhenium: Is it Critical?Much attention around the world is being given to the subject of criticality in metals. So let us examine Rhenium against this set of...
Nov 16, 20096 min readMetal Stockpiles – Time to Learn the Lessons of History?“We’re good at two things in Washington”, lobbyist, Jeff Green, a delegate to The ‘Critical and Strategic Metals’ conference on October...