What exactly are the rare metals? They are a group of metals known as rare metals or technology metals or strategic metals, historically also called minor metals. Gather a little more than 50 metals among which include: lithium, beryllium, titanium, zirconium, hafnium, tantalum, molybdenum, vanadium, tungsten, scandium, yttrium, indium, gallium, germanium, uranium, plutonium, and many others. Also included among the rare earth metals, even those called rare earths.

If the annual world production of silver amounted to about 21,000 tons, while that of gold amounts to about 2,000 tons, metals such as hafnium and gallio have annual world production of 100 and 65 tons respectively (year 2009). With a production rate of descent and a growing global demand.

These metals are vital components in many products for many industrial processes, and technology: cell phones, IPAD, lelevisori, military targeting systems, solar panels, wind turbines, batteries for electric vehicles, etc..

Most of the world production is concentrated in China and South America. For the rare earth China has a virtual monopoly. In 2010 China adopted a EMBARC for the export of rare earth to Japan, and suddenly these metals became an important focus of international attention.

THE RARE METALS MARKET

It is very likely that the demand for rare metals will increase in coming years with increasing demand for high-tech products. In addition, the dependence of Western countries that produce high-tech imports of rare metals, will increase.Everything suggests that prices will rise gradually.

The market for rare metals in the West is in the hands of a few traders, who deal with these metals for many years and importing them from China. In addition, this market is not influenced by financial speculation, as there is a bag (with options and/or future) for trading, so their price is determined only by supply and demand for physical metal, without external influences such as funds, hedge founds, or financial speculators.

The market for rare metals is above all to industrial buyers who use them in their products (eg LCD screens), but a few months ago many analysts recommend buying it for investment, considering they are a good defense against inflation and recession (such as precious metals).

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