Hot on the heels of my invite to speak at Indaba Asia 2013, I have also just been invited to re-do my tin and rare earths double-header at both the Metal Pages Electronic Metals and the Metal Pages Rare Earths conferences in September this year. The conferences will this year be held in Shanghai, China, with the Electronic Metals event…
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In a recent in depth article we discussed “What’s hot, what’s not and why” in the commodities world, based on a presentation by CRU Group at the ITRI International Tin Conference last month. Looking at the medium term prospects for a number of commodities, the article concluded that for a commodity to be “hot” with strong positive price fundamentals it…
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At the recent ITRI International Tin Conference, metals and mining consultancy CRU Group presented an update of its "Commodity Price Climate Change" forecast. This has nothing to do with which commodities would benefit from an anthropogenically warmed planet (we'll cover that another day), but is a way of summarising their views of whether commodity price outlooks will be “hot”, “warm”,…
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