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Monday, November 12th, 2007
Prices have crept up about $50 a tonne over the past week, but market participants said that trade was slow and the absence of Chinese suppliers had dampened the market. "Things are kind of hanging right now," one trader said. "China is out of the market (due to the ...
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Monday, November 12th, 2007
The antimony market remains relatively quiet, sources indicated, although prices are likely to heat up in the near term as China moves to close old mines. In addition, a shortage of concentrates in China appears to be intensifying, sources said. Sources quoted antimony in a range of $2,300 to $2,500 ...
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Monday, November 12th, 2007
Interest in the lackluster antimony market was sparked this week with the sale of the last metal from the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency's Defense National Stockpile Center. The DLA sold 2.2 million pounds of metal to U.S. trader Aaron Ferer & Sons Co. for $2.6 million--$1.18 per pound, or $2,584 ...
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Monday, November 12th, 2007
Background & objectives: Sodium antimony gluconate (SAG) is reported to be losing its efficacy in Bihar as a first line drug for treatment of visceral leishmaniasis (VL). Concerned with the increasing incidence of antimony-resistant VL patients in Bihar, we undertook an epidemiological, clinical and pharmacological study to formulate a scientific ...
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Monday, November 12th, 2007
A slowdown in material flow has helped support prices, which are now in a range of $3,400 to $3,500 a tonne, market participants said. Prices also have been buoyed by firm demand for metal from U.S. secondary lead producers despite a downturn in the automotive industry.
"The floods and the ...
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Friday, September 7th, 2007
Consumers of antimony appear to be flush with material, sending prices down below the $3,000-a-tonne mark, traders said Tuesday."There's been a lack of activity in the market for the past couple of weeks" one U.S. trader said. "A lot of consumers have bought what they need for the spring and ...
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Thursday, August 30th, 2007
NEW YORK -- Consumers of antimony appear to be flush with material, sending prices down below the $3,000-a-tonne mark, traders said Tuesday.
"There's been a lack of activity in the market for the past couple of weeks" one U.S. trader said. "A lot of consumers have bought what they need for ...
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Thursday, August 30th, 2007
NEW YORK -- Antimony prices are drifting slightly lower in quiet market conditions, traders said.
U.S. traders quoted antimony in a range of $1.24 to $1.28 a pound ($2,730 to $2,820 a tonne) for good grade material, with off-grade metal in the low $1.20s a pound.
Prices hit a 15-month high of ...
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Thursday, August 30th, 2007
NEW YORK -- The sole U.S. producer of antimony products is turning away business due to a shortage of raw materials.
"The Chinese have forced other antimony oxide producers out of business by increasing the price of metal so that a producer cannot make antimony oxide profitably and compete with Chinese ...
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Wednesday, June 13th, 2007
Although the reinforcement-to-matrix ratio may be varied between 30 - 70% and respectively 70 - 30% by weight, it is not unusual to also see several other materials incorporated with composites, as a means of further modifying the mechanical or physical properties of the moulded component.
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