Frequent traders are jumping into gold and other metals because they see it as a momentum play.
Following record highs set Friday, gold, silver and a host of other metals have been diving.
Massive ore deposits of copper, lead, zinc, silver, gold and other metals formed in this way.
Unlike other metals where production has been taken offline, there's no idle capacity in the nickel industry.
Copper can also be mixed with other metals to make valuable alloys such as bronze, pewter and brass.
Meanwhile, fund net length rose slightly for all of the other metals traded on New York futures markets.
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Jewelry designers and manufacturers have already been substituting other metals for gold and in some cases mixing metals.
That combination makes platinum and palladium a lot more resilient than other metals.
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And the same will be true of the other metals on the list.
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Among the important materials, the category of other metals, mainly aluminum, registered more than 4 million units (up 8.1 percent).
So gold firms tend to sell off seams of any other metals they discover, and to merge only with one another.
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The growing economies there are creating enough cash to allow more people to invest in gold and other metals as savings vehicles.
The company said it planned to extract tin and other metals, including zinc and copper, with the hope of creating at least 220 jobs.
Det Supt Paul Northcott from Devon and Cornwall Police said until last year, thefts of lead, copper and other metals had been rising steadily.
The other significant industrial user is iron and steel production, though iron ore and various other metals used to make alloys are also significant costs.
Experts say this may explain why some objects are very worn in places because gold is very soft unless it is alloyed with other metals.
The other metals-market-bearish part of the risk-off day Wednesday is that the U.S. dollar index is trading higher and hit a fresh seven-week high overnight.
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Consider, gold is no more volatile than other metals yet it carries at least a 20 percent premium over copper, iron ore and coal equities.
Along with many other metals, the price of silver fell sharply in April, but unlike gold it has not even regained the ground it lost.
Chelation, from the Greek for "claw, " employs amino-acid-based chemicals that latch onto lead, mercury and other metals, allowing the body to more easily excrete them.
Gold and other metals often move inversely to the U.S. dollar.
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Recycling hazardous electronic equipment for material recovery (e.g. rare earth, and precious and other metals) in a manner which can substantially mitigate the hazards, entails significant costs.
Among his individual gold equity positions, Paulson took the biggest hits in AngloGold Ashanti, Freeport McMoran (which has exposure to several other metals including copper and silver), and Novagold.
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Mine supply for silver is rising faster than for other metals, helped by an increase of by-product from gold-mining operations plus a number of major primary projects in recent years.
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In other markets, reductions in net-long positions were seen in both the disaggregated and legacy weekly commitment of traders reports in all other metals, with speculators turning net-short in copper.
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Lumping gold in with other metals is another no-no.
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But it occurs to me that one of the effects of the adoption of thorium technology would be to make a series of other metals, like tantalum and the rare earths, rather cheaper.
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Having started playing the social metal game with aluminum it will be interesting to see if the Chinese start acquiring other metals in the name of maintaining employment levels in loss-making mines and smelters.
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Miners can use underwater robots to dig up deposits left from "black smokers, " which are little towers of metallic sulfides that form after magma forces fluids with copper, gold and other metals through the seafloor.
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.
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