The sword is a weapon full of imagery – of great armies and knights – but it also parallels the metallurgical developments that made its use possible. Its invention, the…
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C P Broadbent (Wardell Armstrong), R Seltmann (Natural History Museum), J Drielsma (Euromines), W Reimer (Geokompetenzzentrum Freiberg), M Cox (MMTA) Because there is no exploration and little process technology development… -
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,… -
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… -
From the A Bomb to Hinkley Point and Beyond — Minor Metals in Nuclear James Walsh, MMTA Nuclear power has certainly had its up and downs over the last 70… -
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… -
Visual Capitalist produces some fanstastic infographics, and they kindly gave the Crucible permission to reproduce them. The image below shows ‘What’s inside an iPhone 6’ and as you can see…