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Study Group: Nickel Mining Experts (North America)

Council Members in this Study Group: 33

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Gerard Buhrer

Owner
Spectrum International Sourcing
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Gerard Buhrer is Owner of Spectrum International Sourcing, an independent consultancy firm providing consultancy services for the manufacturing of aerospace engine parts. Mr. Buhrer has more than 38 years of experience in providing technical assistance to international suppliers and selecting suppliers...

Roy Berlin, President and Chief Executive Officer , BERLIN METALS LLCRoy Berlin

President and Chief Executive Officer
BERLIN METALS LLC
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Roy Berlin is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Berlin Metals, a privately held, Chicago based metal service center engaged in the value added processing and distribution of flat rolled carbon steel and stainless steel products in slit coil form. Berlin Metals was founded in 1967 and its...

Jack Lifton, Managing Director, Jack Lifton, LLCJack Lifton

Managing Director
Jack Lifton, LLC
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Jack Lifton is an Independent consultant, focusing on the sourcing of nonferrous strategic metals. His work includes exploration and mining, and the recovery of metal values by the recycling of not only metals and their alloys but also of metal-based chemicals used as raw materials for component manufacturing....

John Ackerman

President
Knox Resources Inc.
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John Ackerman is the President and Owner of Knox Resources Inc. Knox is a consulting firm providing strategic planning, joint ventures and acquisitions planning and negotiations, market and business development, and project management services to small and mid-cap industrial minerals, specialty metals...

Catherine Virga

Analyst
CHRISTIAN, PODLESKA AND VANMUSSCHENBROEK, LTD.
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Catherine Virga is a Senior Analyst at CPM Group; a commodities market research, consulting, asset management, and investment banking firm based in New York City. Ms. Virga has written extensively about the base metals markets, commodities markets, and world financial and economic conditions. She is...

Douglas Horn

Commodity Analyst
CHRISTIAN, PODLESKA AND VANMUSSCHENBROEK, LTD.
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Douglas Horn is a Commodity Analyst at CPM Group (Christian, Podleska and Vanmusschenbroek), a research, consulting, asset management and investment banking firm headquartered in New York City. Mr. Horn regularly contributes his analysis on the energy complex and aluminum, copper, zinc, lead, nickel...

Donald Fosnacht, PhD, Director, Applied Research and Technology Dev., UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA (INC)Donald Fosnacht, PhD

Director, Applied Research and Technology Dev.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA (INC)
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Donald Fosnacht, PhD, is a Partner at Steel Profitability Consulting. Dr. Fosnacht is also the Director of Center for Applied Research and Technology Development for the Natural Resource Research Institute at University of MN Duluth. He has more than 35 years of experience in steel and mining industries....

Paul Glantz

President
Metal Recycling Consultants
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Paul Glantz is a consultant for the metalworking industry, metal recyclers, and metal traders. Mr. Glantz is the President of Metal Recycling Consultants, located in Great Neck, New York, and has been the President of Glantz Iron & Metals, Inc., a metal trading and processing firm...

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Rio Investment in Ivanhoe provides geographical advantage but not control

November 7, 2009

Rio Tinto completes second tranche of its investment in Ivanhoe Mines | www.yourminingnews.com

The Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold project is the primary focus of Ivanhoe Mines in Mongolia. Rio Tinto's investment in Ivanhoe provides Rio entry into an advanced stage major mineral project. With similar conditions in neighboring China and Russia, major project experience in Mongolia will be advantageous...

Growth of the steel markets in Developed Nationsco

September 20, 2009

ArcelorMittal sees sluggish European and US markets in 2010 | steelguru.com

This is a valid question given the current economics.  We have seen massive down turns in all kinds of construction over the last year and massive lay offs that go along with this.  Inventories are well down and many mills and ware houses are holding their breath.  

Is The Rare Earth Supply Crisis Due to Peak Production Capability or Capacity

September 6, 2009

Jack Lifton, Managing Director, Jack Lifton, LLC

A Different Environmental Threat: Peak Rare Minerals, China, and Green Technology | michaelperelman.wordpress.com

The current "crisis" in the media in the supply of rare earth metals is most likely due to nothing more sinister than mining capacity in China, the country which today produces some 97% of the world's supply of rare earth metals. There is sufficient accessible by current technology rare earth mineralization...

Will The Chevrolet Volt Even Be Built as A Production Model? That's The Question

September 4, 2009

Jack Lifton, Managing Director, Jack Lifton, LLC

Audi U.S. president Johan de Nysschen addresses Chevrolet Volt is for idiots firestorm via Facebook | www.autoblog.com

The Audi USA president is simply vocalizing what is on everyone's mind in the OEM automotive world. His basic sentiment that the Volt is an idiotic concept is widely shared wherever in the world cars are designed , built, and marketed by existing mass producers.

The Rare Earth Security of Supply Crisis in Simplified Form

September 3, 2009

Jack Lifton, Managing Director, Jack Lifton, LLC

China tries to calm unease over rare earths curbs | news.yahoo.com

China's domestic use of its domestic production of the rare earth metals used accross the board in and critical to many if not most green technologies has caused it to restrict exports of these rare metals for years. The economics of Chinese rare earth production caused all other world producers to...

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Members in this Study Group include these company types:

  • Consulting Firm (ei)
  • Metal Service Center (ei)
  • Metal Trading Firm (ei)
  • Market Research Company (ei)
  • Academic / Think Tank Institution (ei)
  • Diversified Multi-commodity Mining Company (ei)
  • Iron Ore Mining Company (ei)
  • Metal Fabricator (ei)
  • Minerals Exploration Company (ei)
  • Precious Metals Mining Company (ei)
  • Prime/Institutional Brokerage
  • Steel Mini Mill (ei)

Members in this Study Group often have these job titles:

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  • Principal
  • Consultant
  • Marketing Manager
  • Partner
  • General Manager
  • Researcher
  • Futures Associate
  • Materials Manager
  • Owner
  • Plant Manager
  • Chief Executive Officer
  • Procurement Manager
  • Managing Director
  • Trading
  • Program Director

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Teleconference: 787 1st Flight: Impact on Boeing and the Aerospace Market (11:00AM EST/8:00AM PST)

November 18, 2009