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by MetalMiner IndX Reports on May 22, 2012
Style: Industry News Category: Commodities, Metal Prices, MetalMiner IndX, Minor Metals
Keywords: cerium oxide price, neodymium price, rare earth, rare earth metal prices, rare earths
Neodymium oxide saw a 4.3 percent decline this week, making it the week’s biggest mover on the Rare Earths MMI®. For the third week in a row, the price of cerium oxide dropped, falling 4.1 percent. Dysprosium oxide dropped four percent over the past week as well.
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by Lisa Reisman on May 22, 2012
Style: Commentary Category: Commodities, Metal Prices, Minor Metals, Non-ferrous Metals
Keywords: commodity risk management, copper prices, metal prices, rare earth metals prices, resource nationalism, supply chain management
All of what we covered in Part One — the threat resource nationalism poses to metal prices, supply chain and commodity risk management — begs the question: will metal export bans achieve the desired outcome on behalf of these governments seeking to implement them? Will these countries successfully attract outside investment in processing smelters? Can they [...]
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by MetalMiner IndX Reports on May 15, 2012
Style: Industry News Category: Commodities, Metal Prices, MetalMiner IndX, Minor Metals
Keywords: cerium oxide, rare earth, Rare Earth Metals, rare earth prices, rare earths
This past week, cerium oxide dropped 1.7 percent on the Rare Earths MMI® as the big mover in the rare earth metals market. Dysprosium oxide prices held steady from the previous week, while europium oxide remained essentially flat from the previous week as well. The 11 other rare earth price points, including neodymium, yttrium and [...]
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by Stuart Burns on May 11, 2012
Style: Commentary Category: Minor Metals, Product Developments, Sourcing Strategies
Keywords: industrial equipment, technology
Continued from Part One. The only problem with these long-lasting tube-bending machines, wearily explained to us by the purchasing team one day, was that the engineers chose components from the book of the obscure, and as a result, when that component required replacement at some stage in the future, it almost certainly would no longer [...]
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by Stuart Burns on May 11, 2012
Style: Commentary Category: Minor Metals, Product Developments, Sourcing Strategies
Keywords: semiconductors, technology
Source: e-scribe.com A really intriguing article in the Financial Times this week explores the problem of obsolescence and how it is becoming more acute as the pace of change increases. Quoting a source, the article illustrates the point by saying in 1903, the Wright brothers flew the first plane, and the flight lasted for something [...]
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by MetalMiner IndX Reports on May 8, 2012
Style: Industry News Category: Metal Prices, MetalMiner IndX, Minor Metals
Keywords: rare earth, Rare Earth Metals, rare earth minerals, rare earth price index, rare earth prices
Dysprosium oxide saw the largest upwards shift on the Rare Earths MMI®, rising 7.5 percent. Cerium oxide saw a 5.4 percent drop-off this week. Terbium oxide prices also climbed 4.6 percent week-on-week. The balance of rare earth metal price points collected by the IndX℠ held steady for the week. The Rare Earths MMI® collects and [...]
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by MetalMiner IndX Reports on May 2, 2012
Style: Industry News Category: Ferrous Metals, Green, Metal Prices, MetalMiner IndX, Minor Metals
Keywords: cobalt cathode prices, neodymium price, Renewables MMI, silicon prices, steel plate prices
Silicon dropped 8.1 percent, making it the biggest mover on the Renewables MMI® this week. Chinese cobalt cathodes saw a two percent decline over the past week, and Chinese steel plate fell 0.8 percent over the past week as well. Neodymium traded sideways last week. Japanese steel plate remained essentially flat from the previous week at [...]
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by Stuart Burns on April 27, 2012
Style: Commentary Category: Manufacturing, Minor Metals, Non-ferrous Metals, Precious Metals
Keywords: asteroid mining, Eric Schmidt, Google, James Cameron, Larry Page, Precious Metals
You don’t have to be a Trekkie to be enthralled by the idea of mining passing asteroids for metals. Anyone with a sense of the bizarre or even a good imagination will be intrigued by one of science fiction’s key visions of the future finally, maybe, just possibly, brought to reality. The idea is some way [...]
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