The most important of these is stainless steel, which contains mainly chromium and nickel in varying proportions.

Interestingly enough, they also do this with uranium and chromium, and various other toxic metals.

Alloyed steels, which are sometimes also called special steels and may be considered specialty products, contain small portions of alloying elements such as chromium, cobalt, manganese, molybdenum, nickel, niobium, silicon, tungsten or vanadium.

The American economist Julian Simon allegedly issued a challenge in 1980 to a group of environmentalists, saying that if scarcity were to be measured in terms of higher prices, they should invest in stocks of any raw metal. The environmentalists put their money on chromium, copper, nickel, tin, and tungsten, and picked a time frame of 10 years.

With reduced grazing pressure, the quality of the rangeland and wildlife habitats can be expected to improve, resulting in a more sustainable grazing regime that is less dependent on the purchase of livestock feeds.

Project objectives included increasing sustainable production from livestock and rangelands reversing rangeland degradation increasing incomes and improving living conditions.

Less well known, but following the same pattern, are efforts being mounted to question studies documenting the adverse health effects of exposure to lead, mercury, vinyl chloride, chromium, beryllium, benzene, and a long list of pesticides and other toxic chemicals. Polluters and manufacturers of dangerous products hire experts in what they call product defense to dissect every study whose findings they oppose, highlighting flaws and inconsistencies.