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30/11/2021
Nickel is the fifth most common element on earth with both ferrous and nonferrous properties. It is found in lateritic and sulfidic ores which are refined for use in alloys such as ...
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The London Metal Exchange (LME) is the world's largest metal options and futures market. The LME has 600 designated warehouses in 33 locations across the USA, Europe and Asia. However, ...
16/09/2021
With Covid raging all over the world during the last eighteen months, more and more countries have been forced to lockdown their citizens and shut down their industrial and economic activity. ...
16/08/2021
Used throughout history to preserve and display wealth, gold has stood the test of time and today it is as coveted and precious as it was a thousand years ago. With governments unleashing ...
02/08/2021
GPF Physical Copper Exchange Traded Commodities (ETC) and Physical Nickel ETC have been designed to provide investors direct exposure to physical metal and spot prices. The ETC’s securities are ...
21/07/2021
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 ...
09/07/2021
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 ...
28/06/2021
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 ...
25/05/2021
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 ...
17/05/2021
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 ...
04/05/2021
DLT is a digital system that records transactions chronologically while storing and verifying them simultaneously across other locations and nodes
...22/04/2021
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 ...
20/04/2021
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 ...
09/04/2021
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 ...
31/03/2021
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, ...
24/03/2021
Distributed Ledger Technology, such as blockchain, promises to transform both businesses and peoples’ private lives: not only by revolutionising record keeping and transaction recording, ...
17/03/2021
What is the first thing that pops into your head when you think about super sports cars - be it a McLaren, a Ferrari, or a Lamborghini? Most likely, it’ll be the roar of that robust engine - a lion ...
15/03/2021
Why do we call it Dr. Copper? Across the business cycle, copper is very highly correlated with global GDP and industrial production. Hence, the performance of the economy can be related to the ...
09/03/2021
Until recently, mass adoption of Electric Vehicle (EV) technology has been concentrated primarily in the small vehicle category, targeted at reducing the numbers of the highly polluting two- and ...
25/02/2021
To accompany our webinar on the emerging Blockchain sector (which you can view on the past events page), we have answered some of the questions our audience asked, encompassing technical enquiries, ...
25/01/2021
Hydrogen Fuel Cells (HFCs) have been known since 1842, when a Judge from Swansea, Sir William Robert Grove, designed a rudimentary version in his home laboratory. Since then, there have been many ...
17/12/2020
Two of South America's greatest rivers, the Uruguay and the Paraná, slide into each other about halfway down the continent, combining to form a mighty estuary, second only to the Amazon in ...
15/12/2020
Carbon emissions are being brought down as a result of a range of initiatives with different objectives. International agreements, such as the UN Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change, mandated reduced ...
09/12/2020
Heat from the sun, converted into wind in the earth’s atmosphere, is used to power wind turbines. Turbines are powered by rotor blades that function like airplane wings, the spinning caused by the ...
30/11/2020
In 2019, Electric Vehicles (EVs) accounted for just 0.5% of the world’s vehicles, however by 2025, it's expected that 7% of all passenger vehicles will be electric, rising to 38% by 2040. By ...
Due to a restructuring of the Issuer where the Arranger and Metals Counterparty are being replaced, all primary and secondary market activity have been suspended as of Monday 25th April till further notice. Please see the official announcement here.