• Critical production uses
• Demand currently trumping supply
• Delivery poses a challenge

What’s the best way to tap into the nonferrous metals market? Physical metals or mining companies?

• Which performs better?
• There's no such a thing as a "pure play" mining company
• Volatility vs. returns

BHP faces a big week. Plus, hard evidence that buying a commodity is very different from buying a commodity stock.

• Earnings are going to matter
• They have to face the Rio Tinto music
• Why they’re not really a base metals stock

What’s the most energy-efficient, environmentally friendly way to take advantage of strong metal prices? Recycling.

• Huge energy (and cost) savings
• A booming market
• The best way to invest
  

• The source of marginal demand
• An export- or import-led economy?
• The AH Premium index

The Hunt Brothers are everywhere.

OK, it’s not that bad, but the heavy hand of speculators is having an increasingly important impact on the market, particularly for the minor metals.

Commodity investors often lose sight of the fact that all this wheat and ore has to eventually get somewhere. A recent move by India may be showing us that this could be an Achilles' heel – and it's floating in the Pacific.

It is crucial for people who are going to swim in these markets to understand what they are doing and how the commodities market operates.

A deal is a deal. Unless, of course, you change the terms at the last minute.

HAI takes an in-depth look at the LME's intervention in the nickel markets this summer.

• Was it fair?
• Was it necessary?
• Will it happen again?