GLOBAL COPPER SMELTING ACTIVITY REBOUNDS DURING AUGUST 24 September 2020 – The SAVANT platform, a unique geo-spatial analytics product focused on global copper smelting activity, showed a strong improvement in August, as the sector recovered from the July multi-year lows. August also saw North American smelting activity rebound particularly strongly. August Observations: The global activity… (continued)
GLOBAL COPPER SMELTING ACTIVITY DURING JULY DROPS SHARPLY TO MULTI-YEAR LOWS 18 August 2020 – The SAVANT platform, a unique geo-spatial analytics product launched in October 2019 by Earth-i and Marex Spectron, shows a significant decline in global copper smelting activity during July, which is in sharp contrast to the robust recovery observed in recent… (continued)
Earth-i’s SAVANT continues to increase coverage in China 28 July 2020 – With recent additions to the SAVANT remote sensing data sources the Earth-i team has now added two more Chinese copper smelters, Jinlong and Zhongtiaoshan, to our global copper smelting index. This increases the SAVANT China smelter coverage up to 85% of the Chinese… (continued)
Earth-i continues to strengthen the Technology Team 21st July 2020 – Earth-i welcomes Dan Hirst to the Earth-i Technology team. Dan returns to Earth-i after a summer placement at Earth-i in 2018 and then completing his degree in Computer Science and Astrophysics in the US. “I’m really excited to be part of a team looking… (continued)
Earth-i welcomes SEPnet summer interns 16th July 2020 – Earth-i welcomes Daniel Cutting and Owain Newman to the Earth-i Technology team as interns under the SEPnet (SouthEastPhysicsNetwork) programme. Dan Cutting and Owain Newman join the team whilst undertaking a PhD in gravitational wave cosmology and an integrated Masters degree in physics respectively. “I’ve only been… (continued)
GLOBAL COPPER SMELTING ACTIVITY DISPERSION INDEX INCREASES DURING JUNE TO 50.7 (+0.1 FROM MAY) 14th July 2020 – The SAVANT platform, a unique geo-spatial analytics product launched in October 2019 by Earth-i and Marex Spectron, showed a small increase in global copper smelting activity from the previous month. The sequential increase occurred despite an increased… (continued)