Here Is A New Metal An Bar Angle....

Interesting note on the ring, an I agree T, about like those copper bars, an this seller here asking 280 for 6 pounds, should be hefty profit they would make on a sale of 6 of those....

For the very long term titanium may have a bright future price wise.
That is the result of the destructive way in which it is mined.

Almost all titanium comes from the mineral known as 'Rutile', which is black in colour, and is a mixture of titanium dioxide (white) and zirconium dioxide (black). A tiny proportion of newly mined titanium is extracted from the mineral known as 'Ilmenite', but it is very rare to have a commercially viable mine based on this mineral.

Rutile is found in mineral sands which are under virgin bushland undisturbed natural vegetation at shallow level, never more than 2 metres depth. The ground cover has to be totally destroyed to recover the mineral. Woodchips are produced as a byproduct of rutile mining.

For natural conservation reasons, it is becoming almost politically impossible to get approval from governments around the World to allow mining of rutile.

Titanium is increasingly being favoured for it's strength at high temperatures and low density properties.

For reasons of increasing demand and decreasing supply the price of titanium will increase in the long term, unless other other alloys with the same properties as titanium can be developed, which is very unlikely.