Download or read book World Metal Markets written by Patricia Perkins and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1997-10-28 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States holds strategic stockpiles of nearly 100 industrial minerals, metals, and other commodities. These stockpiles have influenced the world commodity markets in many ways. This work brings together in one place, documentary and statistical evidence about the size and nature of the U.S. strategic stockpiles, and the ways in which this influence has been evidenced, in markets for the important industrial metals.