Used in everything from autos to appliances, copper is widely watched as an economic bellwether – and this same relationship makes it a good inflation hedge.
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China’s Staggering Demand for Commodities
Vanadium: The Energy Storage Metal
How Copper Riches Helped Shape Chile’s Economic Story
The History of Tungsten, the Strongest Natural Metal on Earth
Chart: How Every Commodity Performed in 2016
Commodities: To Short, or Not to Short?
The Periodic Table of Commodity Returns
The Story of Voisey’s Bay: Today’s Mine (Pt. 3 of 3)
The Collapse of Commodities in One Simple Chart
The Story of Voisey’s Bay: The Auction (Part 2 of 3)
The Story of Voisey’s Bay: The Discovery (1 of 3)
China Consumes Mind-Boggling Amounts of Raw Materials [Chart]
The Looming Copper Supply Crunch
Aluminum: The Metal Extraordinaire
Everything You Need to Know About Copper Porphyries
Copper’s Contribution to EU’s Circular Economy
The Periodic Table of Commodity Returns
The History of Metals
A Forecast of When We’ll Run Out of Each Metal
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Pistol Bay Mining (TSX-V: PST)
Magnetite: The Future of Iron Ore
Iron Road (ASX:IRD)
Nickel: Where Form Meets Function
Iron: The Core of the Developing World
Copper: The Essential Metal (Part 2)
Copper: The Essential Metal (Part I)
The Labrador Trough and Canada’s New Iron Rush
Tungsten: An Industrial Metal With Unstable Supply
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China uses more steel, cement, copper, nickel, and coal than the rest of the world combined. This chart shows China’s incredible demand for commodities.
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Using vanadium’s 4 different oxidation states, vanadium redox flow batteries (VRFBs) could be a crucial step forward for energy storage in the green revolution.
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How Chile became a copper powerhouse, and how this helped to propel its economy to become the richest and freest in Latin America.
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Though we now know tungsten as the strongest naturally-occurring metal, it wasn’t discovered until late in the 18th century. Here’s the history of tungsten.
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See the winning and losing commodities for 2016 in this chart.
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To short or not to short commodities? We take a look at the hypothetical success of a Dogs of the Dow inspired strategy to go long/short commodities over the last decade.
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How investments in commodities have fared over the last decade, summarized in “The Periodic Table of Commodity Returns”.
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The Voisey’s Bay deposit was sold for $4.3 billion in 1996, but it took years to get it into production. This infographic looks at the deposit and mine today.
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Today’s chart from Macquarie shows all asset classes YTD, and gives perspective on the 2015 collapse of commodities.
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