Meghan Markle and Prince Charles share a rather special relationship. After all, it was Prince Charles who stepped in to walk Meghan down the aisle during her May wedding to Prince Harry after her own father couldn't make it. So it’s no surprise that the future King of England has a rather endearing nickname for his (potentially) favorite daughter-in-law: “Tungsten.”

According to Hongkong's South China Morning Post on December 5th, China will invest in developing two molten salt reactors, a nuclear technology that has been abandoned during the cold war, but it is a more theoretically safer and more efficient nuclear technology. In fact, China is not the only country that tries to reactivate the technology, and the US, Russia, France and Japan are all concerned about the technology, but China seems more serious. This is because the demand of nuclear power plant and uranium is as high as 85%, far exceeding the international warning line of 50%, but the main fuel - thorium in the new type of molten salt reactor is the top of the world in our country. Therefore, the development of the fourth generation new type of molten salt nuclear reactor has a different significance.

On July 25, Jiangxi University of Science and Technology set up the Tungsten Technology journal after the approval by the State Administration of Radio and Television which marks the birth of the first English journal in Jiangxi Province.

Analysis of latest tungsten market from ChinaTungsten Online

Chinese tungsten prices retreated in the week to Friday August 3 after ammonium paratungstate supply from China resumed following the end of environmental-related halts in Jiangxi province. 

The latest prices of praseodymium oxide, dysprosium oxide and praseodymium neodymium oxide declines from last trading day on quiet trading activity in Chinese rare earth market. 

Chinese molybdenum prices continue to rise in the week to Friday August 3 under environmental protection policy and factories shuts to undergo repair. Prices of ferromolybdenum, molybdenum concentrate and molybdenum oxide edge higher compared with last trading day. 

Analysis of latest tungsten market from ChinaTungsten Online

Chinese tungsten prices continue to be stable in the week under muted demand in the off season. Customers are reluctant to get back to the market and try to force offers down with tungsten raw material supply resumed. “There is excess of material in the market and insiders raise risk aversion,” a trader said. 

Rare earth market quotation in China: rare earth prices are unchanged from the previous trading day as the supply side is under pressure. On the one hand, market supply is still limited under environmental checks and enterprises have ample stocks built in previous stage; on the other hand, market participants are reluctant to come back to market and trading volumes are limited. In addition, the policy side remains quiet. On the whole, rare earth prices are weak at present. 

Chinese molybdenum prices continued to edge higher from last trading day, in which molybdenum powder price declined to RMB 230.00/kg from RMB 235.00/kg, and molybdenum oxide rose to RMB 1,950.00/kg from RMB 1,930.00/kg. 

Plymouth’s huge Drakelands tungsten mine has secured its short-term future with a £2 million loan – but will be conducting a major financial review into its finances as it is now more than £60million in debt.