Dec 17, 20084 min readFour metals seek immunity from recession – Tantalum, Zirconium, Hafnium and RheniumThere is no metal entirely immune from recession but the ones that might hold up better than most, I would suggest, are Tantalum,...
Nov 23, 20083 min readWill aero engine makers be tempted back into Ruthenium now that the spike is over?Producers of Ruthenium missed an opportunity over the last two years when they ignored the demands of aero engine companies who were...
Nov 3, 20084 min readRhenium defies downturnAlready a few weeks now into the largest financial crisis since 1929, there are few items that have resisted the force of gravity. Except...
Oct 24, 20084 min readThere is always a metal lining to a Financial Problem‘So, farewell then Ultima Thule…’as Private Eye’s Poet Laureate, EJ Thribb, might have poetized…at the news that Iceland’s banks had gone...
Aug 15, 20085 min readRhenium prices hold while metals with investment funds behind them fall.Rhenium overtakes Pd & Ru to becomes 6th most precious traded metal. What greater evidence is needed of the pernicious effect of...
Jun 2, 20084 min readWhy does LME wants to get involved with minor metals ?Anthony Lipmann offers a personal view on the London Metal Exchange’s possible plans to launch contracts in minor metals and...
Jan 7, 20083 min readThe View from Rhenium GablesHere at Rhenium Gables we are mulching the soil and planting our winter Rhenium seedlings in readiness for next year’s crop much as we...