Last year I presented a keynote at the Argus Media-Metal Pages China Metals Week in Guangzhou, entitled "Which markets are the future stars of the 'critical metals' industry?" The presentation looks at which of the critical metals, those defined as small important metal markets with supply constraints, have the potential to outgrow their current constraints and become large, industrial metals… Read this post →
July brings a chance to take stock on commodity price movements so far in 2015, as we pass the year mid-point; and here in Western Australia we enter the thick of winter, which is only marginally colder than the record summer temperatures being reported in my homeland. Commodity prices however continue to be more of the wintery sort. The mid-year… Read this post →
A belated happy 2015 to you all! As with many over the new year period, Greenfields has been taking stock of the last year and pondering over the coming year. As part of this exercise it was time to update the Greenfields Research Commodity Price Barometer for 2014 and see if the commodities weather was really as bad as it… Read this post →
Like many others over the new-year period, Greenfields took time to reflect on what has past and what may be forthcoming. As a mineral economist, this of course involves thinking about commodity prices, with an annual compilation of the Greenfields Research Commodity Price Barometer. This New Year 2014 edition steps out from the usual monthly and quarterly reviews to do… Read this post →
