Minerals and Metals Trading
Minerals and Metals Trading

Author: United Nations. Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific

Publisher: New York : United Nations

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13:

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Papers and materials made available to participants of workshop held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 22 September to 2 October 1992.

Base Metals Handbook
Base Metals Handbook

Author: Martin Thompson

Publisher: Woodhead Publishing

Published: 2006-04-10

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781845691547

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First published in looseleaf format in 1993, Base Metals Handbook has been described as the bible of the metals trading community. The looseleaf is divided into seven sections. The first of these provides a general introduction to the history, structure and workings of the base metals markets, with particular reference to the London Metal Exchange (LME). The following sections review aluminium, copper, lead, zinc, nickel and tin. Each of the sections on a particular metal reviews extraction and refining, the major markets for the metal, and the trading environment. The looseleaf includes data on mineral reserves, mines, smelters and refiners, as well as import-export flows, consumption trends and metals stocks. With its distinguished editor and team of contributors, Base Metals Handbook will continue to be a standard reference for all those involved in producing and trading base metals, including brokers, traders, analysts and investors.

Minerals, Critical Minerals, and the U.S. Economy
Minerals, Critical Minerals, and the U.S. Economy

Author: National Research Council

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2008-03-11

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 0309112826

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Minerals are part of virtually every product we use. Common examples include copper used in electrical wiring and titanium used to make airplane frames and paint pigments. The Information Age has ushered in a number of new mineral uses in a number of products including cell phones (e.g., tantalum) and liquid crystal displays (e.g., indium). For some minerals, such as the platinum group metals used to make cataytic converters in cars, there is no substitute. If the supply of any given mineral were to become restricted, consumers and sectors of the U.S. economy could be significantly affected. Risks to minerals supplies can include a sudden increase in demand or the possibility that natural ores can be exhausted or become too difficult to extract. Minerals are more vulnerable to supply restrictions if they come from a limited number of mines, mining companies, or nations. Baseline information on minerals is currently collected at the federal level, but no established methodology has existed to identify potentially critical minerals. This book develops such a methodology and suggests an enhanced federal initiative to collect and analyze the additional data needed to support this type of tool.

Mineral Trade Notes
Mineral Trade Notes

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1962

Total Pages: 1066

ISBN-13:

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A monthly inventory of information from U.S. Government Foreign Service offices and other sources that may not otherwise be made available promptly.

The Rare Metals War
The Rare Metals War

Author: Guillaume Pitron

Publisher: Scribe Publications

Published: 2020-08-04

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 1925938603

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The resources race is on. Powering our digital lives and green technologies are some of the Earth’s most precious metals — but they are running out. And what will happen when they do? The green-tech revolution has been lauded as the silver bullet to a new world. One that is at last free of oil, pollution, shortages, and cross-border tensions. Drawing on six years of research across a dozen countries, this book cuts across conventional green thinking to probe the hidden, dark side of green technology. By breaking free of fossil fuels, we are in fact setting ourselves up for a new dependence — on rare metals such as cobalt, gold, and palladium. They are essential to electric vehicles, wind turbines, solar panels, our smartphones, computers, tablets, and other everyday connected objects. China has captured the lion’s share of the rare metals industry, but consumers know very little about how they are mined and traded, or their environmental, economic, and geopolitical costs. The Rare Metals War is a vital exposé of the ticking time-bomb that lies beneath our new technological order. It uncovers the reality of our lavish and ambitious environmental quest that involves risks as formidable as those it seeks to resolve.

Mining Economics and Strategy
Mining Economics and Strategy

Author: Ian C. Runge

Publisher: SME

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9780873351652

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This book will help direct mining operations through the use of innovative economic strategies. The text covers what is meant by a cost-effective mining scheme, the economics of information, and the procedures for rational evaluation of uncertain projects.