(Guest contributor TC Malhotra reports for MetalMiner from New Delhi.) The rapid growth of mining activities in some Indian states has caused loss of corridors for elephants, resulting in isolation of their population. Indian Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has also raised concern over the issue, blaming mining as the main cause of elephant habitat destruction. [...]
Nothing lasts forever — not the Roman Empire, not the Ming Dynasty, not even Simon Cowell’s popularity; at some stage they all falter and so too will the growth rate of the global steel industry. An intriguing article in the FT explores the issue for ArcelorMittal, but the challenge is the same for all global [...]
When Goldman Sachs told clients to “get out of Dodge as far as commodities went earlier this spring, metals prices plummeted on fears that a commodities bubble had been reached. Metal prices have slowly begun to appreciate, and even though gold, silver and copper are still holding their own, they have not quite gotten back [...]
To commemorate the intersection of Memorial Day and metals, we spotlight a few high (low?) points in commercial metals culture. Give it up for this little Croatian superhero — a regular Magneto — whose body evidently attracts metal objects: “Spoons, mobile phones and even frying pans”…indeed. Quite a metals sourcer, he is — or should [...]
Source: asia.ru Let’s take a look at what MetalMiner wrote about the steel markets throughout the month of May. What is the Price of Grain-Oriented Electrical Steel (GOES)? — While grain-oriented electrical steel (GOES) and non-grain-oriented electrical steel (NGOES) differ in efficiency and magnetic properties, among other things, historical price indexes for both are in [...]
Photograph by Scott Hillier, Flickr On a stretch of 340 miles near the city of Marfa, Tex., sits Fort D. A. Russell, formerly known as Camp Marfa. Established in 1911, the fort took on several roles during World War II: acting as an air base, home for the Women’s Army Corps (WAC), and a camp [...]
Source: Zippo.com Popularized by the US military during the Second World War, the Zippo lighter iconic, cool, made of chrome or brass metal is falling on some hard times. Well, not the actual Zippo lighter per se, which is famous for functioning well in rough, windy conditions, but sales of the Bradford, Penn.-based product are [...]
Metals prices may have come off in the wake of fears over continued tightening in China, Greek debt default and wider worries over stalling global growth, but strangely for some metal (such as aluminum and zinc) the weather may be one factor that supports metal prices in Q3. A Reuters article explains how the worst [...]
