The second largest Blast Furnace in Europe, and the associated coke ovens, have now been shut down – for the second time in less than 10 years. Could this be…
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Perhaps the recent history of hafnium answers the question - ‘What are minor metal merchants for?’ A minor metals trader of the 1970s, it is fair to say, could safely… -
A Q & A session with author, David Abraham I recently had the opportunity to speak with David Abraham about his book “The Elements of Power - Gadgets, Guns, and…
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We would like to thank the press Members for their time and detailed replies to questions submitted by fellow MMTA Members. Responses were received (in alphabetical order) from Argus Media,… -
Dear Members After a really very pleasant summer here in New York, fall seems finally to have come. At least the trees on my street are shedding leaves. Or maybe…
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Members of the MMTA will be aware of our Association’s link with the copperbelt town of Mufulira, the place where copper has been mined since the 1930s. It is a… -
Critical Raw Materials (CRMs) are increasingly being referred to in political policy. The MMTA and the IMA (International Magnesium Association) organised a seminar in September kindly hosted by the German… -
Adapted from an article in New Scientist, 29 August 2015 The meltwater beneath Greenland’s glaciers is an important source of the silicon that some plankton need to build their glassy… -
On 22 September 2015 the CRM Alliance, of which the MMTA is an active member, came together in Brussels to participate in a luncheon event sponsored by CRM Alliance member,… -
Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, and Tsinghua University, China have come up with a possible solution to the problem with electrodes in rechargeable batteries. An electrode…