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31/03/2021

Basel III: Gold’s Journey to the Moon and Backnavigation-next-alternate

Basel III is a set of international regulatory rules based on bank capital adequacy, stress testing and general market liquidity. It aims to improve the 3 key features of regulation, ...

09/04/2021

Gigafactories and Energy Densitynavigation-next-alternate

A huge number of electric vehicles are required to cut greenhouse gases from internal combustion engine-powered vehicles, necessitating massive scale ‘gigafactories’.  Lithium-ion batteries ...

20/04/2021

Battery Technology – An Industry of the Future?navigation-next-alternate

We fielded many questions from the audience, not all of which we had the time to answer fully on the day – if you have additional queries on the below, feel free to message us at info@metal.digital ...

22/04/2021

Rare Earths - Widely Used, Strategically Importantnavigation-next-alternate

Rare earths are a group of 17 minerals, all metals, consisting of yttrium, the 15 lanthanide elements and scandium.  Rare earth oxide compounds are widely used – although generally in small ...

04/05/2021

Blockchain: Disrupting the Global Commodity Industrynavigation-next-alternate

DLT is a digital system that records transactions chronologically while storing and verifying them simultaneously across other locations and nodes

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17/05/2021

Tsingshan's Nickel Plannavigation-next-alternate

By now, we are all well aware of the big players in the Electric Vehicle revolution: Tesla, NIO, and even old-economy Volkswagen have become synonymous with the EV sector in less than a ...

25/05/2021

The RICI Index - Tapping the Dynamics of Worldwide Commodity Consumptionnavigation-next-alternate

The Rogers International Commodity Index (RICI Index) is a broad based, USD denominated, total return composite index that was designed in the late 1990s by Jim Rogers, the renowned ...

28/06/2021

Crouching Bear Hidden Eaglenavigation-next-alternate

Harold Wilson, former British Prime Minister once famously quipped that “a week is a long time in politics” and it certainly feels like a long time since we first heard about the American Jobs ...

09/07/2021

Nickel – A Metal for the Futurenavigation-next-alternate

Nickel is a metal that is much in demand today.  Many will be familiar with its use in stainless steel and in applications such as pipes for clean water, however it is its use in new technologies ...

21/07/2021

Investing in the Energy Transition – It’s More than an Equity Storynavigation-next-alternate

The growth of interest in clean energy investing has been dramatic over the past few years.  The number of reports coming out of bodies such as the International Energy Agency provides clear ...