Thanks to recent advances in genetic engineering, microbiology and biochemistry, it is now possible to synthesize the multitude of organic substances – simple or complex – that a cell would not normally produce. Biosynthesis is a method of producing organic substances using living cells. This involves the introduction of a genetic sequence, comprising the instructions...Read More

Perspectives on two other “energy metals” More correctly, this should be entitled “Besides Lithium and Cobalt.” Huge amounts of media attention, far beyond the specialist resource sector has been paid to both lithium – because of  its central place in the emergence of a modern electric vehicle sector – and to cobalt – mostly because...Read More

After a decade of depression, the uranium sector may be staging a comeback If you set out to destroy value during the last decade, only buying Greek government bonds could have been as sure-fire a way to do this as owning a portfolio of uranium mining companies. In 2011 an ETF for the uranium sector,...Read More

Some words of wisdom imparted by one of the most successful mining promoters of the present day, at a speech to a recent mining conference, when describing what investors should look for in a mineral investment is “avoid companies with streams.” This did refer to projects with watercourses running through their properties, but to “pre-finance”...Read More