There are some obvious ties between the metals industry and the automotive industry. Since MetalMiner often shares extensive coverage of the automotive industry, it sounded like a fun challenge to compile our “best” posts that relate to this sector. There have been some exciting stories in the past few months, with automotive suppliers challenging blanket purchase orders, Johnson [...]
This is a follow-on piece to our previous base metals quarterly pricing update post from last week. You can read that post here. Next we will cover the ferrous markets to include stainless steel and steel. These will also be reported as separate blog posts. The relentless rise of steel prices has been the subject [...]
Those with an eye on the financial pages (or with an interest in a fall vacation to Europe) will not have missed the dramatic shift in the dollar these last few weeks. As the oil price has come down, the dollar has moved up and at the same time the global economic scene has taken [...]
We consider anti-dumping one of the most important and controversial topics that we cover at MetalMiner, so it should be no surprise that we chose to compile some of our most interesting articles on the subject to create today’s “best of” list. You might have already caught Best of… Sourcing Strategies and Best of… Global [...]
A few months have passed since we last discussed BHP Billiton’s bid for Rio Tinto, but BHP hasn’t lost interest in their rival. As the mining giant announced their annual net income this Monday, a record $15.4 billion, they “urged investors to be patient on the Rio takeover,” according to the New York Times. When [...]
The first time I saw a Harry Potter movie, I wasn’t able to finish it. A “scary, scary troll” basically chased me and my kindergarten accomplice from the theater. Seriously, if we hadn’t left right then, he probably would have leapt from the screen and made scary, scary troll noises as he followed us home. [...]
Are you fascinated with light metals technology, and looking to travel to Australia next summer? You might want to consider submitting a paper or registering for the Fourth International Light Metals Technology Conference, which will be held in Queensland in late June. If you have an interest in aluminum, titanium and magnesium alloys, particularly alloy development, [...]
Due to our extensive coverage on hot metals and copper crimes, our readers are no strangers to the seedy underside of the scrap metal community. We wrote a detailed post on red metal crimes this April, and earlier this summer, we quoted an HVAC repairman who noted that copper thefts in Chicago are currently at their [...]
