Look at the esoteric metals--them following the base metals makes for a stronger case we are in a long term secular bull market in commodiities. Good read.
18 August 2006
Metals prices update: Cobalt, moly, tungsten, manganese up
Source: Metals Place
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Metals CatalogExclusive Metals Place prices update
Cobalt 99.9% has been steadily going up all week, now at $17.85/lb, up $2.45 from $15.40/lb last week. Cobalt 99.8% is up 70c at around $17.50/lb, and Cobalt 99.3% up 60c to around $15.70/lb.
Lead scrap went up £3.00/lb yesterday to £425.00/lb.
Ferro manganese (Chinese origin) is at $775/t, up $150/t.
Ferro molybdenum edged up $1.50/kg to $61.50/kg, along with Chinese ferro molybdenum, at $59.50/kg, and molybdenum oxide at $26.75/kg.
APT (Chinese origin) went up $5/lb to $260/lb, along with ferro tungsten 75% (Russian origin), at $31/kg, up $1/kg.
Ferro vanadium 80% went up $1.50/kg to $36/kg, as vanadium pentoxide edged up 10c to $7.25/lb.
Among other gainers were selenium, silicon, magnesium, bismuth, praseodymium and neodymium, while dysprosium went down. |
