By Ian Weekes, Crowe, Clarke, Whitehill EU announces agreement to curb the trade in Conflict Minerals The EU has announced that agreement has been reached in negotiations between the Commission,…
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In his book, The Last Sorcerers, Richard Morris charts the path from alchemy to the periodic table. He describes how scientists and philosophers have tried for well over two thousand… -
The Crucible: January 2015European Conflict Minerals Legislation – Where is this leading for EU business?
By Maria Cox, MMTA It would be very easy to think that because the EU’s proposed conflict minerals regulation has been announced as voluntary, it won’t have much of an… -
Tom Butcher, Consultant A Bit of Background Iran has lived with sanctions for many years now. And still does. The first hefty set of sanctions was unilaterally imposed upon the… -
On May 1st of this year, according to press reports, soldiers of the army of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) descended on the east of the country to…
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By James Walsh, MMTA The search for new hard materials is often challenging, but the vast application potential is a strong incentive to continue this pursuit. One recent success lies with… -
By Tamara Alliot, MMTA The Ancient Greeks spoke of a metal that could be found in the mythical city of Atlantis, and earlier this month this metal known as orichalcum… -
In its vote on 20th May, the European Parliament overturned both the European Commission’s proposal as well as the recent vote of the International Trade Committee. The Commission originally proposed…