December 2010

Best Of MetalMiner 2010 Metals Appreciation

by Taras Berezowsky on December 31, 2010

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Source: musicparadox.blogspot.com We ultimately end the year with this post on a delightful category we like to call “Metals Appreciation. Every now and then, one of us will take a look at a metal in a new, fun or exciting light. After all, it’s refreshing to change it up a little. 1. “Glowing Hearts and [...]

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This metal means way more than just cans and foil, people. We end the week with a look at aluminum (one metal that will certainly play big in our 2011 coverage), beginning with the piece de resistance: 1. “Hungarian Alumina Refinery Disaster What Exactly is This Red Mud? Our Most Viewed Post of 2010. MetalMiner [...]

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Source: neublack.com Our own Stuart Burns has the copper market cornered as far as MetalMiner coverage in 2010 has been concerned, and he’s done a stellar job dissecting the fundamentals and trends of this ever-hotter red metal. Here are some gems from the past year. 1. “Is the Copper Market Hiding Two Million Tons of [...]

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Source: graduatefinance.com 1. “Green Police, Audi and What Diesel Means for Platinum and Palladium (Insert your favorite car sound effect here.) 2. “Platinum, Palladium and Rhodium Price Forecasts 2010 Not surprisingly, the best read of the PGM posts. 3. “Palladium, Where to Now? Shortly after the predictions were published, Stuart examined whether palladium would undergo [...]

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Source: CITIZEN:Citizen Silver and gold — so sang the dapperly dressed snowman (was that a snowman? Burl Ives, right?) in “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. The precious metals aren’t really MetalMiner’s main focus, but here are some diamonds in the rough nonetheless! 1. “Silver The Price is as Volatile as the Predictions Looks like silver’s not [...]

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Source: etfdailynews.com 1. “The Case For Rare Earth Metal ETFs ETFs came together with rare earth metals for one of our most popular posts of 2010. 2. “JP Morgan and Lynas Behind New Rare Earth Metal ETF Where is Industry? Rare earth metal ETFs are unlike other ETFs, which are organized by pricing shares based [...]

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Source: Mining-journal.com 1. “China Doing To Uranium What It Has Done To Copper One of our most recent posts, this article is already one of the 2010′s best viewed. Stuart looks at China’s effect on a pretty “hot minor metal market in terms of news this year: uranium. 2. “Ferrochrome Prices Continue Their Relentless Rise [...]

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Source: thefunkstore.com 1. “The Case For Rare Earth Metal ETFs This post, combining both rare earths and ETFs, takes the cake as the second-most widely read MetalMiner post of 2010, and third most widely read post of the past year overall and with good reason. Rare earths commanded a lot of worldwide attention in 2010, [...]

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