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The industrial minerals industry showed signs of recovery in Q2 as customers continued to rebuild inventories, but the short-term outlook remains cloudy
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REs still rocketing, magnesia & alumina rises; Q4 talks for chromite and potash
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Foundries shake off their polluting image as new growth opportunities arise from environmental technologies
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Oil rig exodus fears grow in Gulf of Mexico as Obama's drilling ban costs 800,000 tonnes in barytes demand
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Sohar Industrial Port Co.'s new minerals port throws Oman's trade doors wide open
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Government willing to end blanket ban on new lithium mines and open up Atacama
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Antimony trioxide jumps upwards, BFA makes gains, while rare earths rise
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Talison Minerals Pty Ltd has given the clearest signs yet that brine is the future for the lithium industry after it struck a deal to merge its spodumene business with Toronto-based brine explorer Salares Lithium Inc
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Neodymium-iron-boron magnet production set for return to US soil after 15 year hiatus as China places further restrictions on supply
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European Commission report forecasts shortages of 14 raw materials
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Lithium-ion battery anticipation is the talk of industry as miners and developers eye future riches
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The Pentago picks rare earths as most valuable as it puts a dollar value on Afghanistan's resources, while controversy reins over its lithium claims
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Auto plastics hit a bump in the road
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US government looking into rare earths supply as Chinese dominance is realised
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Volcanic ash the source of a wide range of key industrial minerals
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IM reports on MEI’s Processing of Industrial Minerals ’10 conference, held in Istanbul, which covered new lithium processing concepts, borates from waste and new uses for established technology
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Major pricing developments and analysis. This month: rare earths, rare earths, soda ash, titanium dioxide, calcine alumina, graphite
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Lithium seen as industrial ‘growth engine’; POSCO eyes seawater source; Eramet plans lithium buyout; Bolivia on back burner
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World no.2 producer to close mine; Market loses 2m. tpa capacity; New olivine supplier sought
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Uralkali, Denis Morozov; RHI, Henning Jensen; Victory Nickel, Cynthia Thomas, Roland Horst; Opta Minerals, David Ascott; USMMA, Jack Lifton, Stan Trout, Tony Morcos
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The UK consumes a year’s worth of salt in five weeks as extreme weather grips northern Europe
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Victory Nickel Inc., based in Toronto, is working towards developing a frac sand deposit that overlies the company’s nickel deposit at its Minago project in Manitoba’s Thompson Nickel Belt
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IM talks with Bill Moore, founder of EVWorld.com, on how electric vehicles could shape the next ten years
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Auto battery development sees increased mineral and chemical opportunities
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Simbol Mining increases acquisition activity as it nears a lithium geothermal brine extraction breakthrough which could eliminate the need for solar evaporation
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Keliber Oy explains how its green process has given it a footing to become Europe’s first producer of lithium carbonate
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While future lithium markets appear promising, Lara Smith outlines why suppliers should be treading carefully
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How significant upstream and market developments have shaped 2009 into one of the most significant years yet for lithium
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Coal-fired power plant demise threatens FGD minerals future
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Closure of Exelon Philadelphia power units in 2011 marks end of magnesia use in FGD and hits 13.5% of US caustic calcined magnesia demand
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Summary of industrial mineral prices listed in monthly IM issue
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Developing optimal milling solutions for FGD-grade trona can reduce injection levels and increase fly ash recycling, as Steve Coulombe of Sturtevant and Alon Vaisman of Malvern explain
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Belgium’s Lhoist Group explains how increasing industrial development and environmental regulation is opening new opportunities for wastewater treatment products such as its new Neutralac® SLS45
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A decade of industrial minerals: the turning of China, the rise of Imerys, a trading evolution, and refractory market consolidation – IM revisits some of the key events that have defined the decade
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Seabed mining gains momentum as resource race intensifies
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Summary of industrial mineral prices listed in monthly IM issue
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British lime producer Francis Flower is striving for wider uptake of recycled aggregate products
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A potential Chinese ban has brought rare earth availability into the public eye with many believing a supply crisis is closing in. Is this premature talk or a matter of the utmost urgency?
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Reality of lithium demand sets in after SQM slashes 2010 lithium carbonate price by 20%
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Some mineral end-user markets are showing signs of recovery, but new projects will remain a risky business until the effects of government stimulus packages can be quantified
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Murray Lines examines the key concepts and minerals in one of the most effective weapons against green house gas emissions, flue gas desulphurisation - the leading environmental market for minerals
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The green revolution quietly continues in China as significant solar cell developments has quartz, silicon carbide & fused silica producers on alert
by Simon Moores, Snr Assistant Editor
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China’s low profile green push can lead to mineral demand boom
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