There was a time when if the price of a metal doubled in a year it would be the stuff of headlines. Not only trade journals, but newspapers and even TV channels would post features on the dramatic price rise and the ensuing calamity that was likely to follow – whether it be a crash […]

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I love articles that really make you think. So I particularly reveled in an article that appeared last week in the Financial Times claiming, “new research shows demand from industrial users has spurred a price boom in a range of metals.” I immediately double checked the date of the article to make sure it wasn’t […]

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It is hard to believe that we are coming up on the close of the first quarter of 2008. What a quarter it has been! We thought it would be fun to review our predictions from the beginning of the year and grade ourselves. At the same time, we will chime in with what we […]

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You’d think that with the current high price of metals, an impoverished country like Zimbabwe would be doing everything in its power to court foreign investors and others to invest and grow the economy. But you would be wrong.
In an unbelievable move last week, 84 year old President Robert Mugabe essentially nationalized all public companies […]

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If you caught the first part of our series on green innovations in the metals industry, you’ll know that the MetalMiner staff is excited about following the growth and development of “green metals.” We love hearing about eco-friendly improvements and new practices in the metals industry. The men and women behind GreenAlloys™ share this excitement […]

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The papers are all worrying about the power shortages being experienced in South Africa and reporting with various levels of alarm the likely impact on the price of precious metals, base metals, Ferro alloys and the stock of companies producing these materials. The reality is the recent outages in South Africa were a disaster waiting […]

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To suggest that prices are going to remain firm let alone possibly rise in the face of a potential recession seems perverse but that is the prospect facing the US Tool Steel market in 2008. As predicted in a recent article on Cobalt the metal price has continued to rise with trading this week at […]

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