Industrial Minerals


Spain facing major changes

27 May 2010

by Simon Moores

IGME calls for consolidation in the Spanish industrial minerals industry

Keywords: Spanish minerals, IGME, bentonite, sepiolite, silica sand, Tolsa, SAMCA

Spain's Institute of Geology and Minerals (IGME) has warned that consolidation of the country’s small and medium-sized miners is a necessary step towards a secure future.

 

Many of Spain's producers of minerals such as bentonite, sepiolite and silica sand are small, independent companies...