A few days ago, Metal Bulletin posed the question “is there really a problem with LME warehouse queues?”

Peruvian energy and mines minister Jorge Merino Tafur showcased Peru's projects in energy and mining to potential Arab investors last week, in an attempt to attract up to $73 billion to the country this decade.

Geoffrey Sambrook’s second novel, Czar Rising, charts the rise and fall of Victor Lansky, a property speculator and former copper dealer, who invests in a Russian aluminium smelter at the time that the Soviet Union was falling apart.

Later this month, the world’s largest copper producers, consumers and traders will meet in London to hammer out supply deals for next year, and as always, they will have different ideas about the physical premiums that should be attached to those contracts.

Chinese zinc smelter Yunnan Luoping Zinc & Electricity will supply 25,000 tonnes of zinc to the local government for reserve purchase.

Hotline was interested to hear this week that the world’s first detection dog has been trained in the UK to sniff out forensic markings on stolen metal.

Who’s got the biggest bazooka? Is it Mario or is it Ben?

The temporary increase on import tariffs for several steel products in Brazil should not lead to domestic price readjustments as the federal government will monitor such prices.

The trouble with looking both east and west is that it is hard to focus on one if you are being distracted by the other.

On one side of the world, BHP Billiton decides to scrap a $20 billion copper project, downsizing its prospective portfolio by more than 500,000 tpy in response to weaker conditions in commodities markets and higher costs in the mining industry.