Many French horns, for example, are made of nickel silver, an alloy of copper, zinc, and nickel (it's silver in name and color only), and some are made of nickel bronze, an alloy of copper, tin, and nickel. (Brass itself is an alloy of copper and zinc.) Many brass instruments are silver-plated (sterling silver on brass), and some are gold-plated.
Other commodities like gold, silver, copper, nickel, all are in high demand, and therefore really expensive.
Jinchuan plans to start using BioHeap in both copper and nickel mines in the next few months.
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This seems likely given recent falls in the prices of other industrial minerals, including copper, nickel and zinc.
It releases nearly 500 tons each of copper and nickel oxides and 2 million tons of sulfur dioxide into the air.
Actually, Glencore likes the prospects for commodities like copper, nickel and aluminum.
The coins are currently made from the nickel and copper alloy cupro-nickel.
The flaw probably happened because of Mr. Brown's imprecise work casting the planchet the copper and nickel blank disc used to create the coin.
Rather than being magnesium based it seems to be zirconium with copper, nickel and niobium (that latter in only one formulation I think).
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The Russian steel and mining giant Severstal has linked up with South Africa's Anglo-American to jointly explore Kola deposits of zinc, copper and nickel.
The resulting firm would have been a top producer of copper and nickel, two of the most lucrative metals of late, but also among the most volatile.
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Furthermore, despite having sidelines in cobalt and molybdenum, the new firm's fortunes will depend chiefly on the price of copper and nickel two of most volatile metals of late.
Glencore and Xstrata, the world's biggest exporter of thermal coal which also produces copper, nickel and zinc, agreed last year on a merger that would create an industry giant.
China's headlong growth has not only caused acute shortages of metals like copper and nickel (which is used, among other things, to make stainless steel and even types of glass).
Examples of these resources include oil, natural gas, precious metals (particularly gold and silver), base metals such as copper and nickel, and other resources such as diamonds, coal, lumber and even water.
Together, the argument goes, the two companies could better direct scarce resources to extract iron, copper, nickel and so on where the most value is to be gained, and do so faster than they could individually.
As of late morning in New York, all four of the precious metals and all six of the base metals were sharply lower, with losses around 1.5% or more for silver, platinum, palladium, copper, nickel and tin.
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The coins are made from steel but plated in nickel, replacing the current cupro-nickel version which contains 75% copper and 25% nickel.
The original bet was on the following commodities: nickel, copper, chromium, tin and tungsten.
On the other hand, the price of nickel and copper jumped on the news.
The improvement in sentiment on Friday resulted in a broad improvement in metal prices led by copper, aluminum and nickel.
While it is also a major producer of nickel, copper and fertilizers, about 90% of its profits come from iron ore.
Not so long ago most products were produced using a handful of atoms from the periodic table, like copper, iron, nickel, and aluminum.
As for individual stocks, there are very few pure platinum plays, as the ore it is mined from also contains nickel and copper.
Brazil's Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (nyse: RIO - news - people ), which mines iron ore, nickel and copper, among other things, has risen seventeenfold since 2003.
The use of maillechort, a tarnish-resistant, creamily beautiful but easily marred alloy of copper, zinc and nickel, sometimes also called "German silver, " for the plates and bridges is a case in point.
China represents 42% of global demand for the four main base metals: copper, zinc, nickel and aluminum, so its decisions regarding how to direct its state-run economy are paramount to the outlook for these commodities, she said.
Over millions of years this created an oxygen-rich atmosphere that rapidly removed electrons from minerals near the surface, creating rust out of iron and forming thousands of new minerals from other metals like nickel, copper and uranium.
Although BNP Paribas looks for strength in base metals next year, it lowered its fourth quarter 2012 and first quarter 2013 price outlooks for aluminum, copper, lead, nickel, tin and zinc from previous forecasts after price weakness earlier this year.
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