Soaring metals prices lure potential thieves
Interesting piece by Peter Hermann on what police say was the theft of 321,872 pounds of nickel bars from S.H. Bell in Baltimore. As Hermann notes, there's a lot of this going on as the price of commodity metals has soared in recent years. Copper is the biggest play, but nickel has doubled in five years, even accounting for the economic slump. Thanks to Kitco for the graph. 
