By Allen Sykora(Kitco News) -- BNP Paribas looks for nickel to underperform other base metals. The bank forecast in July that tin would overtake nickel. “This has already happened and we expect t

Save Those Copper Pennies 1981 Cent 2.95g Copper We have all heard, “A penny saved is a penny earned,” but did you know that it has never held more truth than it does today? Right now there

Before 600 B.C. there was no monetary system in Greece, so they utilized the barter system.   This was a system of trading goods and /or services for other goods and/or services.   By 500 B.C.

Miners rush to find new copper sites Julie Gordon, Reuters   It will take more time, arid lots more money, to bring new copper supplies online as miners venture into more chal

Fri Apr 8, 2011 3:16pm EDT * Base metals jump to new highs as inflation fears mount * U.S. dollar depreciation underpins rally in complex * Coming up: Chinese metal import data on Monda

After a friend removed the freeon (he's a HVAC cert) I got a good amount of copper with aluminum tubing!

Background Copper is usually found in nature in association with sulfur. Pure copper metal is generally produced from a multistage process, beginning with the mining and concentrating of low-grad

Saturday March 05, 2011 11:22:12 AM GMT GLENCORE/COMMODITIES * World's biggest commodity trader expects rally to persist * Sees strong year based on China, India industrialisation * Oil tra

In the next main topic of this course, macroeconomics, money is one of the important concepts. This section talks about money from the perspective of microeconomics. When people exchange goods

With copper prices reaching all time highs there is much talk about an individual trader that owns 80-90% of the deliverable copper on the London Metals Exchange (LME). Since the LME is the larges