In the largest metals market in the world, a new year has dawned and many are asking what it holds for consumption and prices. The year of the water dragon is auspicious for a number of reasons. As the only mythical beast among the 12 animals in the Chinese zodiac, it is supposed to bring [...]
I love when people forward me fun metals stories like this one, noting fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier announced his product debut in the metals industry with a designer-embossed, one-ounce gold bar. According to a couple of press accounts, Gaultier, through his distributor, Dillon Gage Metals, appears to have commanded a 10 percent premium along [...]
MetalMiner welcomes guest commentator Thomas Kase, principal analyst for MetalMiner’s sister site, Spend Matters, and unabashed car aficionado. This post is continued from Part One. The new SL is only the 3rd large-scale aluminum-bodied car production effort ever. (While giving credit to Honda for their NSX sports car, Audi and Jaguar are the first two [...]
Holy skillet†Illustration by Cast Iron Design Company How can we resist a business with the name of Cast Iron Design Company? It naturally feeds our biases of design and metal. Cast Iron Design Company was co-founded and is co-owned by Richard Roche and Jonathan Black. The two met at design school and have combined [...]
You have to smile. It may not be morally justifiable, it certainly isn’t fair, but Italians’ ability to avoid taxes is legendary and their audacity is at times breathtaking. In an article last week, the Telegraph explains how the owner of a luxury goods boutique in the upmarket ski resort of Cortina d’Ampezzo could not [...]
Before my flight back to Chicago this past Monday, my mom handed me a newspaper. You have to read the Titanic†article, Brianna. It will be worth your time. As perhaps the largest piece of historical metal to be discussed in the news this week, I couldn’t have agreed with her more. Thanks, Mom. Guernsey’s [...]
Source: sleazette.wordpress.com As you now well know, we like to have some fun and “appreciate metal” between posting on industrial metal market activity. Not surprisingly, these get quite a few reads. I’ll be brief with introducing these, because the real gold is contained within each humorous or metal-appreciative post: 1. Gold Grillz A Hedge Against [...]
Source: The Daily Green Well, folks, the holidays are nigh. And that can only mean one thing. No, it doesn’t mean you should go hit the spiked nog just yet. It means you should keep checking in with our site for the next week and a half, because the Best Of MetalMiner series is back. [...]
