Guest contributor Alex Burns studies biology at Cardiff University in the UK. You’ve heard of Car Wars – now how about Titanium vs. Ceramic? What did ceramic say to titanium? Move over. More and more now, ceramic composites are used in hip replacement in favor of titanium. The hip replacement is one of the most [...]
Source: 14kgoldteeth.com Strangely, gold is the hottest commodity quickly and pervasively filtering not only into investment portfolios and central bank coffers, but also into peoples’ mouths and onto their teeth. To wit, one of our posts about gold grillz — the technical name for gold-based jewelry custom made for the oral cavity — is the [...]
My colleague Taras wrote late last month about the booming order books for new aircraft at Boeing and Airbus. In an FT article out this week, Forecast International are quoted as saying they expect production of commercial and military aircraft to jump more than 50 percent to 4,870 units within just five years. Anyone reading [...]
by Lisa Reisman on June 23, 2011
Style: Market Analysis
Category: Macroeconomics, Metal Prices, Non-ferrous Metals
Keywords: Aluminum, Chrome, Molybdenum, Nickel, Non-ferrous Metals, Stainless Steel, Steel, Titanium
Based on our content of this week, one might conclude we only cover aluminum. However, regular readers know we endeavor to cover the entire spectrum of industrial metals. Late last week, MetalMiner sponsor Supply Dynamics released its metals outlook (scroll halfway down the page to see it) for June December 2011. What makes the report [...]
You have to wonder if Airbus’ announcement of the ZEHST plane project (zero-emission high-speed transport) at the Paris Air Show is more an exercise in upstaging Boeing than a serious proposition. Interesting as the idea is a hypersonic plane capable of seating between 50 and 100 passengers and flying at more than four times the [...]
MetalMiner welcomes Spend Matters’ Sheena Moore as a guest contributor this week. Though experts were quick to debunk the rumor that these specially trained dogs had titanium teeth implanted to make them more deadly after it was revealed that a war dog had aided the effort in killing Osama Bin Laden, these dogs still deserve [...]
Earlier this year, a friend of mine mentioned that platinum, palladium and titanium are all the rage because of their strength-to-weight ratio and, well, that’s just what’s “in right now. If I was to go the more traditional route gold she told me to wait until the gold price dipped under $1,000 an ounce. (As [...]
A lot of things have been going wrong in the marketplace for Rolls Royce. Their share price fell a bit more than 5 percent today on the LSE in the aftermath of Qantas grounding their half-dozen Airbus A380s. But stock price seems a more near-term hiccup as opposed to the potentially systemic failings of their [...]
