Latest Transition metals Stories
HOLLYWOOD, Fla., April 30, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- At Smith McKenna LLC, precious metals broker Stephen M Smith reflects on silver being the top performer in Q1 2012 out of all other commodities; including gold. Smith has dedicated his life to the precious metals industry and has been accurately predicting macro economic trends for over two decades. His biggest concern is that people will once again pass up learning about precious metals investing, and miss out on a wealth...
Peter Suciu for RedOrbit.com On Tuesday, Planetary Resources announced its plan to mine Near-Earth Asteroids (NEAs), paving the way for mankind's reach beyond the Earth. This would include mining for raw minerals, ranging from water - which would be required for any future human colonization – and two precious metals such as gold and platinum. “Many of the scarce metals and minerals on Earth are in near-infinite quantities in space,” said Dr. Peter Diamandis, Co-Founder and...
DENVER, April 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The International Titanium Association (ITA) has published its latest edition of the Ti Update newsletter ("Titanium"), dedicated to the global titanium industry. The publication may be accessed online (http://www.titanium.org/files/ItemFileA4862.pdf). Produced by the ITA staff, the quarterly newsletter offers market and company news, job postings, classified ads and updates on titanium industry events, with dispatches from sources in North...
HOLLYWOOD, Fla., April 25, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- At Smith McKenna LLC, precious metals broker Stephen M Smith fears that most people will fail to educate themselves on precious metals investing; missing out on the amazing opportunity to diversify and realize exceptional gains in silver, gold and other commodities. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120425/CG94029) ALL of the important areas of growth needed to push precious and industrial metals higher are showing...
((AIM Ticker: LND.L)) THUNDER BAY, ON, April 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - (Highlights:) -- The current drilling campaign on the eastern section of the B4-7 deposit has significantly enhanced the volume of B4-7 massive sulphide mineralisation within the upper 150-metre portion of the deposit along 475 metres of strike. -- Drilling has consistently intersected massive sulphide mineralisation, including drill-hole...
RUB biologists decipher the function of the metal-binding molecule nicotianamine In order to survive, plants should take up neither too many nor too few minerals from the soil. New insights into how they operate this critical balance have now been published by biologists at the Ruhr-Universität in a series of three papers in the journal The Plant Cell. The researchers discovered novel functions of the metal-binding molecule nicotianamine. "The results are important for sustainable...
VANCOUVER, April 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Taseko (TSX: TKO) (NYSE Amex: TGB) (the "Company") announces 2012 first quarter total production of 20.8 million pounds of copper and 438,000 pounds of molybdenum for its 75% owned Gibraltar Mine. For the first quarter, Taseko's 75% share of sales was 12.7 million pounds of copper and 354,000 pounds of molybdenum. In the first quarter, mill throughput was reduced by approximately 500,000 tons, equivalent to roughly 2.7 million pounds of...
Rice University lab develops starfruit-shaped nanorods for medical imaging, chemical sensing They look like fruit, and indeed the nanoscale stars of new research at Rice University have tasty implications for medical imaging and chemical sensing. Starfruit-shaped gold nanorods synthesized by chemist Eugene Zubarev and Leonid Vigderman, a graduate student in his lab at Rice’s BioScience Research Collaborative, could nourish applications that rely on surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy...
THUNDER BAY, ON and VALLENAR, CHILE, March 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Red Metal Resources Ltd. (OTCBB:RMES) is pleased to announce returned assay results of reconnaissance samples taken over the Perth Property, acquired by Red Metal in Q1, 2011. Perth is a 100% owned copper-gold property located in III Region, Chile, 75km north of the city of Vallenar. A recent mapping and sampling program over the Property have returned promising results from reconnaissance samples collected on...
Latest Transition metals Reference Libraries
Aluminum (or aluminium) is a soft, lightweight, silvery metal. It is an element in the boron group on the periodic table of elements, with the symbol Al and atomic number 13. On the earth's crust, aluminum is the most abundant metal, and the third most abundant of all elements on the earth's crust, after oxygen and silicon. It accounts for 8% of the weight of the Earth's solid surface. Because aluminum is a highly reactive metal, it doesn't occur in nature in a pure form. Aluminum forms a...
Aurichalcite is a mineral, usually found as a secondary mineral in copper and zinc deposits. Its chemical formula is (Zn,Cu)5(CO3)2(OH)6. The name probably originates from the Greek oreichalchos meaning "mountain copper".
Cadmium is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol Cd and atomic number 48. A relatively rare, soft, bluish-white, toxic transition metal, cadmium occurs with zinc ores and is used largely in batteries. Notable characteristics Cadmium is a soft, malleable, ductile, bluish-white bivalent metal which can be easily cut with a knife. It is similar in many respects to zinc but lends itself to more complex compounds. The most common oxidation state of cadmium is +2,...
Cobalt is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol Co and atomic number 27. Notable characteristics Cobalt is a hard ferromagnetic silver-white element. The Curie temperature is of 1388 K with 1.6~1.7 Bohr magnetons per atom. It is frequently associated with nickel, and both are characteristic ingredients of meteoric iron. Mammals require small amounts of cobalt salts. Cobalt-60, an artificially produced radioactive isotope of cobalt, is an important radioactive...
Copper is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol Cu and atomic number 29. Notable characteristics Copper is a reddish-coloured metal, with a high electrical and thermal conductivity (among pure metals at room temperature, only silver has a higher electrical conductivity). Copper may well be the oldest metal in use, as copper artifacts dating to 8700 BC have been found. Besides being part of various ores, copper can be found in the metallic form (i.e. native copper)...
