Inside nearly every piece of technology that we rely on—from our laptops and tablets to cars and airplanes—are the minerals tantalum, tin, tungsten and gold. However, for nearly two decades, the mining of some of these ...
Tags: HP, Electrical, Electronics
Wandering into an American Eagle Outfitters store, a customer is more likely to wonder if a denim jacket will look good with a purple V-neck T-shirt than whether that jacket’s metal buttons contributed to the war chests of armed ...
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Researchers at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) in Austria have combined two semiconductor materials, each consisting of a layer just three atomic thick, to create a new structure that holds promise for a new kind of solar ...
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Back in 2010, the European Union's Ad-Hoc Working Group on Defining Critical Raw Materials published its first criticality analysis for raw materials. Its goal was fairly simple: to define the raw materials critical to the EU’s ...
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The European Commission has published a revised and extended list of Critical Raw Materials, based on threatened supply coupled with economic importance. The 2014 list includes 13 of the 14 materials identified in the previous list of ...
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Companies will not have to explicitly declare whether their products contain minerals that originated in mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo or its neighboring countries, according to the SEC. The SEC issued an order Friday staying ...
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China Molybdenum produced 3,749 mt of moly concentrates in the first quarter of 2014, at a cash production cost of Yuan 64,453/mt ($10,307/mt), the Henan based producer said in its quarterly report Monday without providing a year-on-year ...
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On April 22, China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC) announced that during last week (Apr. 14-20) the overall average finished steel price in China declined by 0.1 percent compared to the previous week. In the given week, the average prices of ...
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China will appeal to the World Trade Organization (WTO) against its ruling that China's regulation of its rare earth exports had violated WTO rules, an official said on Thursday. The appeal will be lodged Thursday, Chinese Ministry of ...
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Union Process, Inc., known globally as a manufacturer of particle size reduction and dispersing equipment as well as related services for a broad range of research and industrial applications, has built two twin S-400 Attritors. The wet ...
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On April 15, China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC) announced that during last week (Apr. 7-13) the overall average finished steel price in China rose by 0.6 percent compared to the previous week. In the given week, the average prices of ...
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Just weeks remain before companies registered with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) must disclose whether they are receiving tantalum, tungsten, tin and gold from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and, if so, ...
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Association Connecting Electronics Industries, recently published IPC-1755, Conflict Minerals Data Exchange Standard, to help suppliers and their customers effectively facilitate conflict minerals data exchange along the entire global ...
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Conflict minerals reporting may be a significant challenge for executives this spring as many companies are just in the early stages of compliance exercises as the May 31 SEC filing deadline approaches, according to a report released ...
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China is unlikely to reclaim its position as a major exporter of molybdenum oxide and ferromolybdenum despite the World Trade Organization ordering the country to remove export taxes and quota controls on the commodities, market sources ...