EUROPEAN COMMISSION WARNS OF NON-FERROUS METAL SHORTAGES
June 1st, 2010
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Commission expert group has warned of serious potential shortages in supplies of rare non-ferrous metals in the next 20 years, especially of those required by emerging technologies.
An ad hoc group of the European Union (EU) Raw Materials Supply Group has concluded that 16 non-ferrous metals should be placed on a "critical list" of concern. These are antimony, beryllium, cobalt, gallium, germanium, indium, magnesium, niobium, platinum group metals platinum, palladium, iridium, rhodium, ruthenium and osmium, plus tantalum and ...
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