Base Metals Guides

Market guides — base metals

Metal Pilot base-metals guides — copper, iron and industrial-metal market primers and explainers.

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Iron — A Complete Market Guide (2026)

Iron is civilisation’s structural metal — the element that becomes steel, and therefore the skeleton of every building, bridge, ship, car and machine on Earth. By tonnage the iron ore market dwarfs every other metal: 2.6 …

Published Sep 6, 2026 48 min read Iron Base Metals Guide

Nickel — A Complete Market Guide (2026)

Nickel is the metal that makes stainless steel stainless — and, more recently, the energy-dense heart of the nickel-rich batteries that power long-range electric vehicles. No major metal market has been remade as fast or …

Published Aug 16, 2026 52 min read Nickel Base Metals Guide

Copper — A Complete Market Guide (2026)

Copper is the metal the modern economy is wired with, and the one the energy transition cannot do without — every electric motor, grid cable, data-centre and solar farm runs on it. In 2024–2025 copper repeatedly set …

Published Jun 28, 2026 46 min read Copper Base Metals Guide