Base metals handbook
Subtitle: the definitive reference source to the major base metals
By: edited by Martin Thompson
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: CRC Press; Woodhead Pub.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Boca Raton, Fla; Cambridge, England
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 466
ISBN-13: 9781845691677
Subjects: Industries; Handbooks, manuals; Nonferrous metal industries; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS; General
Other titles: BMH
Description: First published in looseleaf format in 1993, Base Metals Handbook has been described as the bible of the metals trading community. The looseleaf is divided into seven sections. The first of these provides a general introduction to the history, structure and workings of the base metals markets, with particular reference to the London Metal Exchange (LME). The following sections review aluminium, copper, lead, zinc, nickel and tin. Each of the sections on a particular metal reviews extraction and refining, the major markets for the metal, and the trading environment. The looseleaf includes data.
Notes: Includes index.

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