1.   A slump in precious metal prices also weighed on the currency today, as traders sold metals along with Australian dollars, Stapleton said.

2.   Friends of hers will tell you privately that, likely, she sold valuable metals on the foreign market, which was illegal in Russia.

3.   In addition to the petroleum-cokes business, Applied Industrial sells metals used as additives and alloys in the steel industry.

4.   Miners often sell metal before they actually produce it if they think prices will later fall.

5.   Mining companies often sell metal before they produce it if they decide that prices are higher than they will be after the gold is mined.

6.   Still, Russian suppliers could sell metal on an individual basis, rather than wait for longer-term supply contracts to be approved.

7.   Switzerland said it will sell the metal gradually over the next few years.

8.   The melted metal is sold to companies that produce ingot, billet and metal castings for aerospace parts.

9.   He said the thieves had apparently wanted to sell the metal for scrap.

10.   Miners sell the metal to local buyers but never earn enough to leave their poverty behind.