Some Facts and Figures BACKGROUND Volcanogenic massive sulphide deposits (“VMS” deposits) are significant sources of copper, lead, zinc, silver and gold. They can also contain significant quantities of cobalt, tin, selenium, manganese, cadmium, indium, bismuth, tellurium, gallium and germanium. Some also contain substantial quantities of the toxic elements arsenic, antimony…
Investor Relations Series – Part Two How a company manages a crisis can make a major difference between the long term destruction of shareholder value and just a temporary decline in share price. If information is not disclosed at the first hint of trouble, shareholders will sell first and ask…
Reshoring is a trend (and topic du jour) that has been underway for a couple of years, particularly between China and the US. It is a term that has been coined to describe the trend for a country’s manufacturing operations that have previously been moved offshore, to be returned home,…
Notwithstanding today’s (perfectly engineered soft-landing) Chinese GDP of 7.6% for the year-on-year June quarter, things are not looking too bright for the Middle Kingdom in the steel space. This, in turn, should be causing considerable consternation among the exporters of coking coal and iron ore. The Epoch Times reports that China’s…
Cosmetics, Alchemy , Fire and Electricity History Antimony sulphide (stibnite) was used as a cosmetic as long ago as 3,000BC, in Sumer (today’s south-central Iraq) and Egypt. The sulphide was finely ground and generally applied to the eyes and eyelashes. Much later its use as a cosmetic spread to…
A Global Game Changer? Background In 1825 William Hart sold shale gas (produced from a drill hole) to the village of Fredonia, to be used for lighting. Fredonia, Pennsylvania is in the United States, about 500 kilometres due west of New York City and 100 kilometres east of Cleveland.…