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Metal Miner

MetalMiner is the largest metals-related media site in the US according to third party ranking sites. With a preemptive global perspective on the issues, trends, strategies, and trade policies that will impact how you source and/or trade metals and related metals services, MetalMiner provides unique insight, analysis, and tools for buyers, purchasing professionals, and everyone else for whom metals and their related markets matter.

Latest articles from Metal

  • Aluminum And Steel Could Peak In China As Coal Is Fazed Out

    Published 13 June 2021 | viewed 4,273 times

    China’s steel and aluminum market is undergoing a quiet revolution. It’s not a revolution of investment or innovation. Peak aluminum, steel in China? According to…

  • China’s Steel Industry Has Been Hit Hard By Its ‘War On Pollution’

    Published 12 March 2021 | viewed 5,661 times

    In many emerging markets, economic growth has come at the stark price of appalling levels of pollution. But the Financial Times suggested that in China,…

  • Can President Biden Avoid A Critical Metals Crisis?

    Published 28 February 2021 | viewed 4,271 times

    President Joe Biden’s latest executive order seeks to secure a variety of important supply chains. For example, in one higher-profile case, General Motors recently announced…

  • Is The Green Hydrogen Hype Justified?

    Published 25 December 2020 | viewed 22,485 times

    Has the time for the “fuel of the future,” green hydrogen, arrived? Recently, some of the world’s biggest green hydrogen project developers and partners joined…

  • Inda Ramps Up Deepwater Gas Production

    Published 24 December 2020 | viewed 6,341 times

    The beginning of production at what is now Asia’s deepest offshore natural gas field will increase the share of natural gas in India’s energy basket.…

  • The U.S. Moves To Ease Dependence On Foreign Rare Earths

    Published 07 October 2020 | viewed 3,212 times

    Late last month, President Donald Trump issued an executive order that seeks to curb U.S. dependence on foreign sources of critical minerals. Chief among those…

  • Problems Are Piling Up For Oil Majors

    Published 07 October 2020 | viewed 12,385 times

    Consumers reacted to earlier lockdowns and continued pandemic restrictions, leading to a massive drop in demand. On the other hand, prices initially collapsed after Saudi…

  • U.S. Firm Looks To Gain Ground In India’s Energy Storage Market

    Published 01 October 2020 | viewed 3,839 times

    India’s renewable energy sector, the fourth-most attractive renewable energy market in the world today, is all set to get a new player. U.S.-based ArcVera Renewables, which…

  • Import Costs Rise As U.S.-China Trade Spat Escalates

    Published 28 September 2020 | viewed 2,663 times

    We have written in previous posts about volatility this year in the logistics market adding to buyers’ delivery and import cost uncertainty. At other times,…

  • Can The UK Auto Industry Bounce Back?

    Published 28 September 2020 | viewed 9,736 times

    We may be coming out of the first pandemic lockdown and business does, broadly, appear to be picking up; however, but some sections of manufacturing,…

  • Copper Prices Are Soaring On Growing Battery Metal Demand

    Published 11 September 2020 | viewed 13,768 times

    A fair part of the bull story for copper this year has been supply-side fears. The world’s largest mines are in South America, which has…

  • The Battery Breakthrough That Could Transform An Entire Industry

    Published 28 August 2020 | viewed 13,930 times

    A team of researchers in India has introduced an eco-friendly and energy-efficient battery that is being touted as “the future” of batteries — not only…

  • India To Propose World Solar Bank

    Published 27 August 2020 | viewed 3,585 times

    India will propose a World Solar Bank at the World Solar Technology Summit organized by the International Solar Alliance (ISA) in September, the Business Standard reported. Stay…

  • What Role Will Hydrogen Play In The EU’s Future?

    Published 18 July 2020 | viewed 13,579 times

    The media — at least in Europe — seems to be abuzz with talk about green hydrogen. As an energy source, backers envision hydrogen powering…

  • Record High U.S. Crude Inventories Threaten Oil Rally

    Published 09 July 2020 | viewed 22,159 times

    Anyone connected or exposed to the dynamics of the oil price must be wondering if the recovery in the oil price is sustainable and, indeed,…

  • India Launches Its First Natural Gas Exchange

    Published 22 June 2020 | viewed 11,928 times

    India launched its first natural gas exchange earlier this week. The Indian Gas Exchange (IGX) is a nationwide, online delivery-based gas trading platform for delivery of natural…

  • India Takes Big Leap In Solar Development With $6 Billion Deal

    Published 17 June 2020 | viewed 18,827 times

    India’s onward march to boost its renewable energy capacity and build domestic capacity for making solar equipment got fresh impetus when Adani Green Energy Ltd won a…

  • India’s Solar Power Industry Is Hurting From Covid-19

    Published 06 June 2020 | viewed 19,279 times

    The COVID-19 pandemic has taken its toll on India’s solar power program. According to a new report from ETEnergyWorld, India was able to add only…

  • Car Sales Fall To 10-Year Low

    Published 11 April 2020 | viewed 61,187 times

    An article in the Financial Times reviews the fortunes of parts makers Infineon (formerly part of Siemens), Continental and Osram, all of whom suffered last…

  • Is Oil Heading To $10?

    Published 30 March 2020 | viewed 73,944 times

    Popular investor inclination may be that after such a dramatic fall, the oil price has to bounce back, that investor sentiment on the downside was…

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