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Yttrium and Erbium are now available

We are pleased to bring to market, for the first time we know of, investor grade one troy ounce ingots of yttrium and erbium.  These are our first ...
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On the Cusp: Our First Rare Earth Metals

We plan to have our yttrium and erbium ingots ready by the end of this week.  These are our first two offerings from the series of rare earth metal...
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Telluride Colorado, mining the streets for calaverite, and the Solyndra bankruptcy

Columbia, Colorado was renamed Telluride in 1887 after the tellurium containing gold and silver minerals called tellurides that were mined in Color...
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The Other 3 PGMs, completing the 6-pack, and the late Eitan Cohen

We've recently added iridium to our family of rare precious and industrial metals and have a very limited supply given that production costs were a...
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The Stuff of Meteorites

It has been postulated that much of the iridium in the earth's crust has arrived from outer space via meteors and asteroids, which are called meteo...
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

We had a small, now resolved, issue with how to handle listing the purity of our hafnium ingots given that it is mined with and nearly impossible t...
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Back to the Future

Our yttrium and erbium ingots are next up to be etched, starting tomorrow.  Both of these metals are used in YAG lasers, which is what our ingots a...
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Germanium is now available

We are proud to bring our germanium ingots to market.  It is our purest ingot at 99.999%.  Worldwide annual production is about 120 tonnes compared...
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On the Cusp: Ge, Hf, & Ir

We are very pleased to announce the imminent release of germanium, hafnium, and iridium.  We've had our share of roadblocks in bringing these to ma...
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Antimony coming

We will have one ounce ingots of antimony later this year, we hope by October.  Antimony is relatively rare, estimated at 0.2 to 0.5 parts per mill...
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Bismuth coming

We are pleased to add another rare industrial metal to our collection.  We plan to offer 99.99% pure bismuth ingots by October of this year.  Bismu...
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Stalled inventory

We have had an unexpected several month delay in the release of our new metals, related to an equipment downtime at our testing lab.  We will not r...