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Grade 2 Sponge Titanium (USD/mt) = $6,087.03 Yttrium: 28.9 USD/kg is 2890 USD/mt So the 1% Yttrium might be financially reasonable (assuming extra demand can
by robocat 1y ago
Grade 2 Sponge Titanium (USD/mt) = $6,087.03
Yttrium: 28.9 USD/kg is 2890 USD/mt
So the 1% Yttrium might be financially reasonable (assuming extra demand can be met). Prices from metal.com
- hinkley 1y agoSounds like a ‘find a useful titanium/??/yttrium alloy’ situation. I’m shocked that yttrium is dearer than smelted titanium.
- robocat 1y agoThose figures show Yttrium is about half the price of Titanium metal. I was shocked at how cheap Yttrium is (I searched for pricing because I thought the 1% might be too expensive). Now I want to buy some...
- robocat 1y agoNot cheap. Ah shit. I can't shift zeros. 1% of 28900 $/mt is $289. [Yeah: My initial assumption was that Yttrium is really expensive - and it fucking is - I ignored my own smell test - I should have caught my mistake]. That is say 5% of the current final price of Ti (ignoring purity) to end up with something with less oxygen but 1% fucked with Yttrium. You can't just increase price by percentage points for highly competitive commodities. You especially can't add dependencies on elements that are in limited supply and supply controlled/constrained by politics. So this looks like another academic bullshit result that totally ignores economical realities.
- hinkley 1y agoAh, that was a typo. Not dearer.
- Const-me 1y agoI think you made a mistake converting units, 28.9 USD/kg = $28900 per ton.
- two_handfuls 1y agoThank you for the correction and also for helping me realize they meant "metric ton" (t).
- NooneAtAll3 1y agowhat's mt?
- cjbgkagh 1y agoIt means metric ton, different to US and GB imperial tons.