<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Commodity Origins blog</title><link>https://commodityorigins.com/blog/</link><description>Monthly commodity roundups and notes</description><item><title>How this site knows where things come from</title><link>https://commodityorigins.com/blog/how-this-site-knows/</link><guid>https://commodityorigins.com/blog/how-this-site-knows/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Every figure here is computed from a named public dataset by an open pipeline, with its unit, year and source attached. Here is exactly how that works, and where it fails.</description></item><item><title>Commodity roundup, August 2026: copper, tin and silver set records</title><link>https://commodityorigins.com/blog/roundup-2026-08/</link><guid>https://commodityorigins.com/blog/roundup-2026-08/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Copper, tin and fishmeal hit nominal all-time highs in August 2026, European gas rose 17% on the month, and coconut oil kept falling. What moved and why.</description></item></channel></rss>