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• Attention Raw Material Shoppers, Investors and Purchasing Agents Alike: Stop Worrying about the Supply of Lithium

  By Jack Lifton  |  August 22, 2007

  Sociedad Quimica y Minera (SQM) has the capacity to make sure lithium supply is readily available.

• Subsidies for Small Tungsten Miners

  By Jack Lifton  |  January 11, 2007

  Ignore the American OEM automotive assembly industry's requests, but insist that we need subsidies for small miners.

• Hybrids: Are They on Hiatus or Already History?

  By Jack Lifton  |  July 11, 2006

  Hybrid technology will be, for the near term in the American market, raw materials neutral. The U.S. market will keep taking large cars as long as their costs do not climb beyond the rate of inflation.

• Copper Synergies

  By Jack Lifton  |  May 4, 2006

  Why are financial analysts still betting on huge price increases for copper when New York banks and well managed copper companies are saying otherwise? Are hedge funds panicking?

• Process Innovation: The Global OEM Automotive Industry and Zirconium

  By Jack Lifton  |  April 7, 2006

  Remember that it is not only product that can be innovative but also process. It might worth taking a look at the newest metal to be used in the process of automotive manufacturing, zirconium.