MetalMiner has always held a strong free market philosophy. Our belief is in most cases the benefits of lower cost material to consumers outweighs the damage to domestic producers that global trade can bring. In our experience, calls for anti- dumping fines, import tariffs or quotas are nearly always brought by large industrial producers.  The losers […]

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Good news for those on the hunt for cheap ferrochrome: Prices are steadily falling. But since this fall is due to a lack of heavy demand, the prices should increase after stainless steel mills ramp up production. For now, however, summer slowdowns have impacted prices. Also leading to these lows is “the continued collapse in sales […]

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Well one analyst is anyway. Liberum Capital released an interesting report to investors last week along the following lines which if correct we felt has some interesting observations for our readers.
Liberum drew initially on the significant falls in mining stocks with the sector down about 19% since May with heavy falls last week in US […]

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Is the rise in metal prices really so inevitable? We usually place considerable weight on articles appearing in Purchasing.com, but I have to take issue with a feature from yesterday which suggests metals will continue to rise on the back of power problems around the world. Certainly the first quarter of this year has seen […]

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Although our blog readership is steadily growing, we seem to be misperceived by many as being quite “niche”. It is true to say that we aren’t going to be writing about Britney Spears or Paris Hilton (unless they happen to don some new metalized bra or something) but to say that the metals industry is […]

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There was a time when if the price of a metal doubled in a year it would be the stuff of headlines. Not only trade journals, but newspapers and even TV channels would post features on the dramatic price rise and the ensuing calamity that was likely to follow – whether it be a crash […]

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I love articles that really make you think. So I particularly reveled in an article that appeared last week in the Financial Times claiming, “new research shows demand from industrial users has spurred a price boom in a range of metals.” I immediately double checked the date of the article to make sure it wasn’t […]

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It is hard to believe that we are coming up on the close of the first quarter of 2008. What a quarter it has been! We thought it would be fun to review our predictions from the beginning of the year and grade ourselves. At the same time, we will chime in with what we […]

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You’d think that with the current high price of metals, an impoverished country like Zimbabwe would be doing everything in its power to court foreign investors and others to invest and grow the economy. But you would be wrong.
In an unbelievable move last week, 84 year old President Robert Mugabe essentially nationalized all public companies […]

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If you caught the first part of our series on green innovations in the metals industry, you’ll know that the MetalMiner staff is excited about following the growth and development of “green metals.” We love hearing about eco-friendly improvements and new practices in the metals industry. The men and women behind GreenAlloys™ share this excitement […]

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