Oversight of Metal Stocks – to be extended?
Over the course of my career, I learned that often the best trading opportunities occur around that fuzzy, uncertain line where the LME...
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geoffreysambrook
Jul 17, 2019
Extracting Ores, and Moon Landings
The extraction of metal ores from the earth is a tough business, and as technology advances – which should, on the surface, presumably...
geoffreysambrook
Jul 10, 2019
Range Anxiety – Part Two
Last week, Fred wrote about range anxiety from the point of view of a user of a pure electric car. I thought I’d explore that a little...
geoffreysambrook
Jul 3, 2019
Range Anxiety
This article was written by Fred Piechoczek. All views and opinions are strictly his own. Lord Copper has introduced a number of ideas on...
Bill Prast
Jun 26, 2019
Why we should like volcanoes
This article was written by Bill Prast. All views and opinions are strictly his own. Coming back from a recent short visit to eastern...
geoffreysambrook
Jun 19, 2019
All Hail the New Puritanism!
“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.” So begins LP Hartley’s novel of wistfulness, love, deception and...
Anthony Lipmann
Jun 12, 2019
Lehman Brothers – a Family Business
This article was written by Anthony Lipmann. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. If you haven’t seen The Lehman...
geoffreysambrook
Jun 5, 2019
Battlefields
I’ve just spent a few days visiting the Somme battlefield, in northern France, which I last did about fifteen years ago. For the metal...
geoffreysambrook
May 29, 2019
Why be a Politician when you can be a Metal Trader?
This article was written by Anthony Lipmann. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. I suppose you know you are getting...
geoffreysambrook
May 22, 2019
Hurrah! More Voting!
Hot on the heels of the local elections of which some of us in the UK have been privileged to experience the excitement, comes the next...
geoffreysambrook
May 15, 2019
So who are the Barbarians?
I know I’ve written here before about Constantine Cavafy’s poem “Waiting for the Barbarians”, but another thought about how apt it is in...
geoffreysambrook
May 8, 2019
Energy Inconsistency
When I was a child, things powered by batteries always had one big failing – the batteries went flat, and, on the whole, the house never...
geoffreysambrook
May 1, 2019
Well Done, LME
There may be rival claims from Shanghai or New York, but the reality is that the LME is still the most influential metal exchange around....
geoffreysambrook
Apr 24, 2019
Put your money where your mouth is
I have a few very good friends who watch the nickel (and cobalt, to an extent) market like hawks. They are convinced that the spread of...
geoffreysambrook
Apr 17, 2019
It doesn't always contain what it says on the tin
Things aren’t always what they seem, and the mining and metals business offers lots of scope for dubious – and even nefarious –...
geoffreysambrook
Apr 10, 2019
Customs Union wouldn't work
I’m getting seriously concerned by the intellectual capacity of those who would be our leaders. I’m thinking particularly of the UK, but...
geoffreysambrook
Apr 3, 2019
Listen to what they say…….
Last week I wrote about some phrases that chill the soul; this week, I thought, on a lighter note, I’d mention some that should – but...
geoffreysambrook
Mar 27, 2019
Re-Education…..Coming Soon!
I’m sorry to be writing another political piece so soon after the last one, but there are some phrases that send a shiver of horror down...
geoffreysambrook
Mar 20, 2019
Alice in Reality
I have always loved ‘Alice in Wonderland’. Of all children’s stories, its anarchic, upside-down, crazy, unimaginable world for some...
geoffreysambrook
Mar 13, 2019
The Real Cost of Storing Electricity
When, last week, I wrote that the biggest challenge in the wider adoption of electric vehicles was the extension of the charging network,...
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