The word "metals" is definitely correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to elements or minerals that are metallic in nature. For example, "This jewelry is made from precious metals like gold and silver."
With gold stabilising after its recent declines - which were based on worries about countries such as Cyprus selling some of their reserves along with signs of slowdown in China - and base metals such as copper recovering, mining shares regained some lost ground.
After recent rises, gold and silver prices slipped back, leaving Randgold Resources 204p lower at £46.27 and Mexican precious metals miner Fresnillo down 33p at 852p.
Air quality regulators covering almost 11,000 square miles that are inhabited by almost 17 million people, including residents of Los Angeles, have approved new rules designed to help protect the public from poisons such as arsenic, benzene and heavy metals in industrial emissions.
Potentially harmful levels of metals, including lead, mercury and arsenic, have been found in up to a fifth of Ayuverdic products bought online.
It cost him his business career in the metals boom years (EU pay and expenses are only partial compensation) and it cost him a chunk of his self-indulgent lifestyle.
Farage, who was a metals trader in the city, said the young voter, who also asked about immigration, had obviously wound himself up and "needed to get some accuracy".
The bronze age brought with it stronger metals but they did not taste any better, so eating with the hands continued in most parts of the world except in east Asia.
More plentiful metals like copper, bronze and iron have electrode potentials that are lower than silver, react with quite a lot of food, and taste foul.
Plunkett, a director on the precious metals desk, sent an email on the evening of 27 June 2012 telling colleagues that he was hoping for a "mini-puke to 1558", a mini-puke referring to a fall in the gold price.
Thus for most of recorded history, those not using chopsticks either ate with their hands, with cutlery made from metals that taste quite strong, or from other nice-tasting materials such as wood.
"It works like a bank, but it's gold," says Crumb, who has a background in metals trading and investment banking.
