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Chinese prices for manganese stabilize

Chinese electrolytic manganese market has suspended the recent rally, which began last week, as higher prices have become unacceptable to consumers. Spot prices for manganese 99.7% in flakes now vary in the range of 19,3-19,6 thousand yuan ($ 2972-3018) per ton.

European problems hit the prices of nonferrous metals

On Wednesday, June 15, non-ferrous metals finished the session on LME with a decrease after strengthening of the dollar and the publication of disappointing data on industrial production in the United States. U.S. industrial production rose in May by 0.1%, although twice bigger level was expected, and the index of Empire State – a measure [...]

Russian microbiologists forced bacteria to extract gold.

Bacteria “In the XV century, people have learned how to get copper out of the blue streams, which flow from the mountains. But the mechanism of Vatting of non-ferrous metals from sulphide ores was understood much later, in the XX century, – says head of the Laboratory of the chemolithotrophs Microorganisms of the Institute of [...]