October 1st 2024 saw a gathering at The Royal Society of Chemistry in London to celebrate an unusual birthday — the 99th year since the first isolation of rhenium. The…
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Organised by Beijing Antaike Information Co., Ltd., (Antaike) China’s premier raw materials research consultancy, and supported by China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association Minor Metals Branch (CNIA), China International Minor Metals…
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Rhenium is a refractory metal with a melting point of 3180 °C. It has good plasticity, mechanical properties and creep resistance, as well as corrosion resistance. Rhenium is widely used…
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By Dr K. Dessai, Independent Consultant in Metals, Mining and Energy Minor metals are used in the commonly-known applications of aerospace, automotive and energy generation, to name a few, and… -
The world’s population is growing quickly; people are moving to urban centres, and raw material demand is expected to increase three-fold by 2050. Government and business need to face these… -
25-26 April 2023 Charlotte, NC, USA Day 1 – Tuesday, April 25 For delegates who had neither played golf at the Bermuda Run Country Club (kindly sponsored by ICD…
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MMTA 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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Part 7: Trade metals and see the world! Retired metal merchant, Anthony Lipmann, illuminates metal trading for the young entering the world of metals. I had a metal friend…
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András Szép (1957-2024), was one of a group of talented metal merchants who came to prominence – and survived – from the era of 1990s post-communism. I came to know…
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Notes from the Other Side Retired metal merchant, Anthony Lipmann, illuminates trading for the young entering the world of metals. When I was young in the 1960s our schoolteacher…
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As we get closer to the century since the discovery of rhenium, speciality metals trader Anthony Lipmann introduces us to the extraordinary woman who identified this rare element in the…