Personally, I'd like to see them make a salami so big it cant fit on the slicing machine, and takes two blokes to lift it. So basically the same size as a boxing bag.
Most salamis have a girth of between 20mm and 125mm, and a length of between 60mm and 385mm. Now all the machinery at the salami factories has been upgraded to the latest standards, they can make salamis as big as 280mm in diameter and 920mm in length. They tried to make a salami 320mm in diameter with a length of 1350mm, but it burnt out one of the motors then the salami bursted.
Relax at Johnny's tapas and paella bar, its also a sub-branch of the YMCA and Johnny has installed a Turkish bathtub. There's talk of a Swedish sauna, but that wont be until after the olive season because all his men will be picking olives and milking the goats.
Yes China has flooded world markets with steel, on the back of their domestic demand falling. They've also been adding things like cadmium to get around some import regulations, thats about to be stopped. Coal is the other main ingredient of steel, also down. Brazil has low production costs, but that could change after that tailings dam collapse. So there's a few factors that could push it up again, but exactly when that will happen is anybodies guess.
Yes Palmer river is a gold rich area a few hours drive away. People still fossick and mine there, not large scale mining.
We have a different system here with mining. The land owner does not own the minerals below it, "blocks" are leased from the government to undertake exploration or mining. A mining companies tenements are the blocks they have leased or "pegged". A junior miner with good tenements will be a takeover target by the big miners when the price of ore picks up (presently at historic lows).
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RE: The last bell bottoms
Anything except pot, that is.