Nov 4, 20205 minI have a friend in Minsk...If at some time in the future it is proved there is indeed a God, my betting is it will be Tom Lehrer; the mathematician whose University...
Oct 7, 20205 minWhy are the bankers getting out of commodities?If there is one thing I learnt after 41 years of trading it is that it takes a very special kind of person to be a banker. I should mean...
Sep 10, 20203 minA sunrise metal: Tellurium in solar panelsBy Amen Seo Earlier this year, we saw skies clearer than ever seen by our generation, as blankets of smog dissolved as an inadvertent...
Sep 1, 202010 minTea with DerekDerek Raphael who died on 29.08.20 worked with my father, Eric Lipmann, during the heyday of Continental Ore Company (COC), the first...
Aug 13, 20202 minHow Copper and Copper Alloys can Kill Pathogens in MinutesBy Loveday Hedgcock In an age when preventing both infection and waste is topical, the need to find effective means of killing pathogens...
Jul 15, 20205 minTrading with Japan – A Family AffairBy Suzannah Lipmann Looking back, it must have been down to the fact that I’d read ‘Memoirs of a Geisha’ at a young and impressionable...
Jul 8, 20204 minWhat's the point of books?The year is 1991 and I am in Tallinn hunting for metal. It is the surprising end of the Soviet Union and the tectonic plates are...
Jun 8, 20202 minA tragic tofu tale? By Amen Seo Whether you love it or hate it (like my partner's mum who silently shifted all the tofu pieces to the side of her plate the...
Jun 8, 20202 minThe Wonderful World of FluorescenceThere is a whole big, wide, world of fluorescence out there in nature - from quinine, harvested from the bark of the South American...