Metals

Australia’s refining crisis is an underappreciated risk to the global economy.
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Where is it okay to mine copper?
180
China’s chokehold over meaningful economic pinch points is more widespread than most realize.
174
Is a gold-backed BRICs currency on the horizon, and if so, what might it mean?
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Making sense of the opportunities arising from new direct lithium extraction (DLE) technologies.
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Could gold become the next crypto, targeted by US authorities for ejection from the Western banking system?
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More EVs for thee, but no lithium from ME.
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Adam Aron’s newly minted cadre of gold bugs will soon make its acquaintance with humbuggery.
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When the LME acted out of existential desperation, it may have catalyzed its certain demise all the same.
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The debate over corn ethanol as a fuel is the perfect distraction from the scandal that led to its widespread adoption.
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The story of how China came to dominate the magnesium market should inform a strategic reconsideration of the West’s entire approach to the economy.
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If you were foolish enough to short copper with these market dynamics, punishment should have been swift. If you were shrewd enough to take the other…
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