[www.ferro-alloys.com]The two events may not be directly connected, but it's likely that Rio Tinto's (NYSE, LSE: RIO) decision to shelve its huge Simandou iron ore project in Guinea bid up the price today.

Base metals have enjoyed a solid 2016 so far with only lead (-3%) in negative territory for the year. While the likes of zinc (+28%) and tin (+16%) have rallied and steelmaking raw materials iron ore (+24%) and coking coal (+12%) have come back strongly, nicke...

[www.ferro-alloys.com]An international team of scientists that includes researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has revealed how interactions between electrons and ions can slow down the performance of a ...

[www.ferro-alloys.com]The latest titanium exhaust system from Akrapovic was released recently for the Mercedes-AMG C63, as shown on a report from gtspirit.com. The exhaust specialist from Slovenia launched the second system for AMG vehicles, which features the...

[www.ferro-alloys.com]Norsk Titanium AS, a pioneering supplier of aerospace-grade, additive manufactured, structural titanium components announced the successful close of its Q2 2016 funding round. Minneapolis-based investment bank Piper Jaffray led the rou...

[www.ferro-alloys.com]The firm running Plymouth's £130million tungsten mine has benefited from a hike in ore prices but still has financial pressures and has had to tackle noise problems caused to neighbouring residents. Specialty metals producer Wolf Miner...

[www.ferro-alloys.com] UK-based Oxford Instruments has launched a molybdenum disulphide (MoS2) growth process development using its Nanofab nanoscale growth system.

[www.ferro-alloys.com] Photo-etched parts made from materials such as nitinol, elgiloy, titanium, and niobium find extensive use in the medical industry. Tech-Etch in Plymouth, Mass., specializes in the photo-chemical etching of tungsten. Because tungsten is e...