Global bank HSBC says the metals super-cycle is still more “super” than “cycle”. Deutsche Bank says metal prices will on average trend higher than over the past 40 years because they will cost much more to extract from the ground in future. JP Morgan sees the present bull cycle lasting until 2028. The Mining Investor’s Handbook by newspaper commodity columnist Robin Bromby offers some timely, and cautionary, history to the greatest commodity boom ever seen, examines the extraordinary changes that have occurred in the commodity markets — and suggests that the story is a long, long way from being played out.