It is unclear how much Trump’s plans for metal refining facilities will directly lift MP, but regardless, I am bullish on ...

A guillotine shear slices the slug into sections, with the mid-grade product going for blending and further refining while the high-grade metal is further chopped and crushed into small chunks.

This process can be used to turn out raw synthetic graphite powder, but more commonly, it’s used to create graphitic parts like electrodes for metal refining. In that case, coal tar pitch is ...

President Donald Trump has plans to set up metal refining facilities on the sites of U.S. military bases in a bid to increase domestic production of critical minerals, reducing reliance on China.