When time were good — we’re talking as recently as the middle of 2008 — and copper was near $4 a pound, producers didn’t have an interest in hedging, sort of like gold producers today. Now, however, some are starting to take advantage of even small up-blips in the market, or slides in their...
By the Copper Development Association Ten parts copper, one part tin. It sounds like a simple equation, but the discovery of this formula—the essential proportions of bronze metal — set in motion world-changing events, forever altering life on our planet by ushering in the modern era of metalworking, mechanical invention and more. The questions...
