Dear MMTA Members and colleagues, Welcome to your September and LME Week edition of the MMTA’s magazine, The Crucible. LME Week 2024 The LME Week 2024 kicks off on…
September 2024
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CrucibleThe Crucible: September 2024Uncategorized
Welcome to new MMTA Members
by Polina Sparks September 30, 2024The Minor Metals Trade Association is pleased to welcome three new members who joined the MMTA in September. Tungsten Vietnam JSC is a tungsten producer situated in Thai Nguyen, Vietnam. It…
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The Outlook for Battery Metals
by Polina Sparks September 30, 2024EVs drive demand Annual global lithium-ion battery demand is expected to sur-pass 1 TWh (1,000 GWh) for the first time this year. Demon-strating the scale of growth in this sector,…
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CrucibleThe Crucible: September 2024
Cobalt sulfate: the state of play and what’s to come
by Polina Sparks September 30, 2024Battery chemical markets have faced a turbulent ride through 2024, with a downturn in lithium prices coupled with cobalt metal prices falling to and staying at eight-year lows. Slowing electric…
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CrucibleMinor Metals and ApplicationsThe Crucible: September 2024
Molymet launches Mo Re powders
by Polina Sparks September 29, 2024MMTA member Molymet, a major molybdenum processor and the world’s largest producer of rhenium, with headquarters in San Bernardo, Chile has launched production of highly spheroidised powders of rhenium, molybdenum…
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China’s export controls rock global antimony market
by Polina Sparks September 29, 2024Antimony prices have been on a rapid uptrend since Beijing announced the addition of antimony and some of its products to China’s export licensing scheme from 15 September, and with…
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CrucibleMinor Metals and ApplicationsThe Crucible: September 2024
Nuclear Propulsion in Space
by Polina Sparks September 29, 2024View from North America Dear MMTA Members, Good afternoon from Cleveland Heights, Ohio this Labor Day. And it is quite stunning weather here: sun shining, not too hot and…
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CrucibleMinor Metals and ApplicationsThe Crucible: September 2024
Time to take notice of niobium
by Polina Sparks September 29, 2024There has been a noticeable uptick in interest in niobium of late. In our view, this is worth pondering. Niobium is a rarely used metal, with annual consumption amounting to…
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CrucibleThe Crucible: September 2024
Molybdenum market movements focus on China
by Polina Sparks September 30, 2024A robust Chinese domestic market is currently the only factor supporting molybdenum spot prices, with the European market failing to register any uptick in September since the return from the…
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CrucibleThe Crucible: September 2024
Pricing Specialty Metals Based On Market Conditions Away From China
by Polina Sparks September 30, 2024There are many issues facing world markets for specialty metals. Most of these markets are relatively small in size. They are not sufficiently large and liquid enough to have price…
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The Importance of Metals and Minerals Inspection in Ensuring Safety and Quality
by Polina Sparks September 30, 2024Veritek Global Solutions, an MMTA member since 2022, is celebrating its 11th birthday this month. The privately-owned British company is headquartered in the UK and has its regional African head…