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A China Diary

Jinzhou I have been in China twenty-four hours and no one has mentioned the crisis. Perhaps it is just too cold to talk, as the...

To Hf or Hf not? Who cares about Hafnium?

Perhaps the recent history of Hafnium can best illustrate the question – ‘What are minor metal merchants for?’ A minor metals trader of...

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...

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