Tungsten — A Complete Market Guide (2026) Tungsten is the metal that cuts every other metal. It has the highest melting point of any metal and, bonded to carbon as tungsten carbide, it becomes the working edge of nearly every drill bit, milling insert and mining … Published Sep 27, 2026 · 71 min read · TungstenBase MetalsGuideCommodity Guide
Cobalt — A Complete Market Guide (2026) Cobalt is the metal nobody sets out to mine. Roughly 99% of it comes out of the ground as a by-product of copper and nickel, which means the cobalt market’s own price has almost no power to call forth new supply — and … Published Sep 20, 2026 · 63 min read · CobaltBattery MetalsGuideCommodity Guide
Iron — A Complete Market Guide (2026) Iron ore is the raw material of steel, and so of every building, bridge, ship, car and machine on Earth. By tonnage it dwarfs every other mined metal: about 2.6 billion tonnes of usable ore were mined in 2025, and more … Published Sep 6, 2026 · 85 min read · IronBase MetalsGuideCommodity Guide
Platinum Group Metals — A Complete Market Guide (2026) The platinum group metals market is the strangest corner of commodities: six precious metals rarer than gold, mined at scale in exactly two places on Earth, and consumed mostly by a single technology — the catalytic … Published Aug 30, 2026 · 43 min read · PGMPrecious MetalsGuideCommodity Guide
Coal — A Complete Market Guide (2026) Coal is the fuel the modern world was built on — and the one it keeps declaring dead while burning more of it than ever. In 2025 the coal market set another all-time record: 8.85 billion tonnes consumed, more than every … Published Aug 23, 2026 · 47 min read · CoalGuideCommodity Guide
Nickel — A Complete Market Guide (2026) Nickel is the metal that makes stainless steel stainless — and the energy-dense heart of the nickel-rich batteries in long-range electric vehicles. No major metal market has been remade as fast: in ten years Indonesia … Published Aug 16, 2026 · 89 min read · NickelBase MetalsGuideCommodity Guide
Rare Earths — A Complete Market Guide (2026) Rare earths are the seventeen metals that make modern technology small, light and efficient — above all the neodymium magnets inside every EV motor, wind turbine, smartphone and guided missile. No commodity carries more … Published Aug 9, 2026 · 51 min read · Rare EarthEnergy MetalsGuideCommodity Guide
Lithium — A Complete Market Guide (2026) Lithium is the light metal inside every lithium-ion battery, and that makes the lithium market the most leveraged bet on electrification in commodities. The world mined 290,000 tonnes of it in 2025, excluding withheld US … Published Aug 2, 2026 · 87 min read · LithiumBattery MetalsGuideCommodity Guide
Natural Gas — A Complete Market Guide (2026) Natural gas is the swing fuel of the power grid — it heats homes, fires industry and, in much of the world, sets the price of the marginal megawatt-hour. Unlike oil it has no single world price: the natural gas market is … Published Jul 19, 2026 · 88 min read · Oil and GasNatural GasGuideCommodity Guide
Silver — A Complete Market Guide (2026) Silver is the one metal that is both money and a factory input: in 2025 the world used 1,131 million ounces of it, and 58% went into industry — 187 million ounces into solar panels alone — while investors bought 218 … Published Jul 12, 2026 · 93 min read · SilverPrecious MetalsGuideCommodity Guide
Uranium — A Complete Market Guide (2026) Uranium is the fuel of nuclear power, and almost nothing else: in 2024 the world’s 441 commercial reactors needed 64,584 tonnes of uranium, and mines supplied 61,924 tonnes — 96% of it, with stockpiles and recycled … Published Jul 5, 2026 · 83 min read · UraniumEnergy MetalsGuideCommodity Guide
Copper — A Complete Market Guide (2026) Copper is the metal the modern economy is wired with: in 2025 the world used 28.2 million tonnes of refined copper, and 29% of the copper demand the IEA tracks already went into clean-energy uses such as grids, electric … Published Jun 28, 2026 · 82 min read · CopperBase MetalsGuideCommodity Guide
Gold — A Complete Market Guide (2026) Gold is the oldest monetary asset still trading every business day, and in 2025 the gold market did something unusual: the price averaged a record $3,442 an ounce — 44% above 2024 and, after inflation, 45% above its 1980 … Published Jun 21, 2026 · 87 min read · GoldPrecious MetalsGuideCommodity Guide
Oil — A Complete Market Guide (2026) Oil is the single largest traded commodity on earth and still the backbone of the global energy system — and in the mid-2020s it is a market pulled in two directions at once, between OPEC+ quota discipline and record US … Published Jun 14, 2026 · 115 min read · Oil and GasGuideCommodity Guide
Tungsten — A Complete Market Guide (2026) Tungsten is the metal that cuts every other metal. It has the highest melting point of any metal and, bonded to carbon as tungsten carbide, it becomes the working edge of nearly every drill bit, milling insert and mining … Published Sep 27, 2026 · 71 min read · TungstenBase MetalsGuideCommodity Guide
Cobalt — A Complete Market Guide (2026) Cobalt is the metal nobody sets out to mine. Roughly 99% of it comes out of the ground as a by-product of copper and nickel, which means the cobalt market’s own price has almost no power to call forth new supply — and … Published Sep 20, 2026 · 63 min read · CobaltBattery MetalsGuideCommodity Guide
Iron — A Complete Market Guide (2026) Iron ore is the raw material of steel, and so of every building, bridge, ship, car and machine on Earth. By tonnage it dwarfs every other mined metal: about 2.6 billion tonnes of usable ore were mined in 2025, and more … Published Sep 6, 2026 · 85 min read · IronBase MetalsGuideCommodity Guide
Platinum Group Metals — A Complete Market Guide (2026) The platinum group metals market is the strangest corner of commodities: six precious metals rarer than gold, mined at scale in exactly two places on Earth, and consumed mostly by a single technology — the catalytic … Published Aug 30, 2026 · 43 min read · PGMPrecious MetalsGuideCommodity Guide
Coal — A Complete Market Guide (2026) Coal is the fuel the modern world was built on — and the one it keeps declaring dead while burning more of it than ever. In 2025 the coal market set another all-time record: 8.85 billion tonnes consumed, more than every … Published Aug 23, 2026 · 47 min read · CoalGuideCommodity Guide
Nickel — A Complete Market Guide (2026) Nickel is the metal that makes stainless steel stainless — and the energy-dense heart of the nickel-rich batteries in long-range electric vehicles. No major metal market has been remade as fast: in ten years Indonesia … Published Aug 16, 2026 · 89 min read · NickelBase MetalsGuideCommodity Guide
Rare Earths — A Complete Market Guide (2026) Rare earths are the seventeen metals that make modern technology small, light and efficient — above all the neodymium magnets inside every EV motor, wind turbine, smartphone and guided missile. No commodity carries more … Published Aug 9, 2026 · 51 min read · Rare EarthEnergy MetalsGuideCommodity Guide
Lithium — A Complete Market Guide (2026) Lithium is the light metal inside every lithium-ion battery, and that makes the lithium market the most leveraged bet on electrification in commodities. The world mined 290,000 tonnes of it in 2025, excluding withheld US … Published Aug 2, 2026 · 87 min read · LithiumBattery MetalsGuideCommodity Guide
Natural Gas — A Complete Market Guide (2026) Natural gas is the swing fuel of the power grid — it heats homes, fires industry and, in much of the world, sets the price of the marginal megawatt-hour. Unlike oil it has no single world price: the natural gas market is … Published Jul 19, 2026 · 88 min read · Oil and GasNatural GasGuideCommodity Guide
Silver — A Complete Market Guide (2026) Silver is the one metal that is both money and a factory input: in 2025 the world used 1,131 million ounces of it, and 58% went into industry — 187 million ounces into solar panels alone — while investors bought 218 … Published Jul 12, 2026 · 93 min read · SilverPrecious MetalsGuideCommodity Guide
Uranium — A Complete Market Guide (2026) Uranium is the fuel of nuclear power, and almost nothing else: in 2024 the world’s 441 commercial reactors needed 64,584 tonnes of uranium, and mines supplied 61,924 tonnes — 96% of it, with stockpiles and recycled … Published Jul 5, 2026 · 83 min read · UraniumEnergy MetalsGuideCommodity Guide
Copper — A Complete Market Guide (2026) Copper is the metal the modern economy is wired with: in 2025 the world used 28.2 million tonnes of refined copper, and 29% of the copper demand the IEA tracks already went into clean-energy uses such as grids, electric … Published Jun 28, 2026 · 82 min read · CopperBase MetalsGuideCommodity Guide
Gold — A Complete Market Guide (2026) Gold is the oldest monetary asset still trading every business day, and in 2025 the gold market did something unusual: the price averaged a record $3,442 an ounce — 44% above 2024 and, after inflation, 45% above its 1980 … Published Jun 21, 2026 · 87 min read · GoldPrecious MetalsGuideCommodity Guide
Oil — A Complete Market Guide (2026) Oil is the single largest traded commodity on earth and still the backbone of the global energy system — and in the mid-2020s it is a market pulled in two directions at once, between OPEC+ quota discipline and record US … Published Jun 14, 2026 · 115 min read · Oil and GasGuideCommodity Guide
