A new discovery by researchers from McGill University shows how and where tungsten accumulates in bones of mice exposed to the element through drinking water. The findings doubt the once-universal assumption that tungsten poses little or no health risk to the general human population.

Rare earth market quotation in China: the latest price of lanthanum oxide, cerium oxide and dysprosium oxide is unchanged from the previous trading day because sellers and buyers are in a stalemate and market trading increases slowly. At the end of the April, most market participants have little plans in purchasing and the market is caught in heavy wait-and-see atmosphere. Given that, the rare earth price shows signs of decline.

Analysis of latest tungsten market from Chinatungsten Online: Though businesses have good expectation for late market price, the increasing raw material supply and weak market demand press the rise in price. Downstream enterprises are not willing to accept high quotations and the market trading is in a stalemate. In the short term, mainstream transaction prices will not change sharply.

With the increasing quantity of steel biddings at the end of the month and rise of international molybdenum price, Chinese market confidence is boosted and businesses keep firm quotation. But the actual trading volumes still need to be increased.