About MetalMiner
We lie awake at night thinking about ways for manufacturers to save money (or avoid spending it unnecessarily) on their metal purchases. From aluminum and steel, to rhodium to gallium, from the thinnest-gauge foils to the largest castings and forgings available, we cover a wide range of diverse topics ” including green sourcing, lean sourcing, global pricing trends, capacity constraints, supply market M&A activity, and much more. With a preemptive global perspective on the issues, trends, strategies, and trade policies that will impact how you source and/or trade metals and related metals services, MetalMiner provides unique insight, analysis, and tools for buyers, purchasing professionals, and everyone else for whom metals and their related markets matter.
Commentators Lisa Reisman and Stuart Burns, co-founders of Aptium Global Inc., have extensive experience in sourcing and trading metals products around the world. Authors of dozens of articles, sourcing tools, and white papers, they share strategies, insights, and trends for cost-avoidance and savings opportunities for metals-related purchases. Welcome to MetalMiner!
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Lisa – best of luck. MetalMiner will be one of the top segment blogs in no time I am sure. Love the site!
Thanks for your support Richard! We appreciate it!
Lisa and Stuart:
I have been reading your articles for the past several weeks and really appreciate your writing and thinking: clear, succinct, and good pragmatic information in a chaotic marketplace!
Keep up the good work.
John Warne
You wrote some good commentary about “China vs Mexico” for metal fab parts a couple months ago. What is the best way to find the premier precision machining shops in Mexico? Is there a tooling trade association or similar organization to contact?
Just a quick note to say how much I’ve appreciated your ideas and commentary of late, especially those tying domestic and trade policy to the global sourcing markets. You truly produce a model blog for the sourcing and supply chain community — thought provoking, expert and opinionated. I am humbled by what you’ve been able to accomplish so far and I’m excited to see what’s next. Nice work, Lisa and Stuart (and Amy, Nate and all the other contributors to date).
To who it may concern
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Comment on your story “Could Nickel’s Run be at an End?”. The demand for metals is cyclical and closely related to global industrial production. Looking ahead, I’m optimistic that the markets will come back sooner than most pundits expect! Be optimistic!
I am researching historical steel prices and I am having a hard time finding the data going back to the last recession. Is there a good data source available for a variety of different steel products like hot rolled or electrical grade?
Hi John, try http://www.thesteelindex.com. It’s a subscription model. We’re going to be developing historical data and forecasting for the MetalMiner IndX(SM) and hope to also add domestic steel data. We’ll keep you posted on that front! LAR
Lisa, Thank you for your quick reply. I would find historical data very useful. I am trying to analyze margins for some companies I cover versus steel prices going back thorugh the past recession and I have had little luck finding data. John
Rocher Deboule is undertaking the development of a large open pit Manganese mine in Arizona USA.
The project has met the securities regulators standards through a NI 43 101 mineral resource report. The property contains 10,000,000,000 lbs of contained manganese and when completed will be the only domestic source of a vital strategic metal. Manganese was in near shortage just a year ago.
Please visit our website to see the photographs of the project; they give you an idea of the vast size of this known deposit.
Mining weekly has covered the project twice
please contact for further info.
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