Industrial Minerals

Refractories, Metallurgy, Foundry, Abrasives

• Price Briefing: Week 10 11 March 2010

  Sulphur climbs, rare earths moving up, chromite set to rise and other market news Read More

• USA cracks down on dumping 11 March 2010

  Chinese companies found guilty in paper, fertiliser and refractory brick trade probes; China brands investigations “discriminatory” Read More

• Refractory dumping: China guilty 11 March 2010

  USA finds China and Mexico guilty of refractory brick dumping; duties imposed Read More

• Bissett Creek graphite boost 11 March 2010

  Stronger prices rekindle interest in Bissett Creek as Northern Graphite raises $1.44m Read More

• Chromite prices set to rise 05 March 2010

  High ferrochrome demand puts pressure on non-met chromite prices Read More

• S Africa to enter graphite market? 04 March 2010

  Jonkel expected to be South Africa’s first graphite producer before the end of 2010 Read More

• Price Briefing: Week 9 04 March 2010

  TiO2 and bromide raised while perlite firms and IM launches lithium hydroxide price Read More

• Globex eyes 1m. tpa talc ore 03 March 2010

  Resource estimate indicates 1m. tpa of talc and magnesite mill feed possible Read More

• Zircon firms on Chinese sales 02 March 2010

  Prices steady as Iluka aims at 500,000 tpa zircon output from 2011 Read More

• Cookson refractories recovering 02 March 2010

  Vesuvius and Foseco improve towards end of 2009 on steel recovery and cost cutting Read More

• TOP STORIES: Minelco’s Seqi olivine closes after just 5 years March 2010

  World no.2 producer to close mine; Market loses 2m. tpa capacity; New olivine supplier sought Read More

• TOP STORIES: Vertical integration drives M&A activity March 2010

  Metals groups search for next big profits; Huge deals grip fertiliser industry; $350m. for fluorspar source Read More

• TOP STORIES: South Africa rejoins wollastonite supply March 2010

  Namaqua to start up April 2010; Targets 23,000 tonnes for 2014; New world class producer? Read More

• SUPPLY SITUATION REPORT: Graphite March 2010

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• Asian steel growth led by China March 2010

  Chinese steel output up 13.5%; Chinese refractory mineral exports down 58% Read More

• Price Briefing: March 2010 March 2010

  Major pricing developments and analysis. This month: rare earths, rare earths, soda ash, titanium dioxide, calcine alumina, graphite Read More

• Fluorspar forging ahead March 2010

  Metspar and acidspar demand bolstered by healthy outlook for aluminium and steel Read More

• Turkey feeds Amcol’s Europe ambition March 2010

  New Turkish mine becomes ‘powerhouse’ of Amcol Minerals Europe as the bentonite mining and processing group gains security from consumer related products Read More

• Price Briefing: Week 8 25 February 2010

  Quiet markets: Chinese zircon could firm as rare earths, chromite and others stall Read More

• First Bauxite eyes 100,000 tpa 22 February 2010

  ThyssenKrupp hired to design plants for calcined bauxite production in Guyana Read More

• World steel production rebounds 22 February 2010

  Output increases 25.5% in January driven by the EU, North America and east Asia Read More

• Chinese fluorspar policy awaited 19 February 2010

  Producers in the dark on new standards expected to constrain global supply Read More

• Price Briefing: Week 7 18 February 2010

  Markets quiet around Chinese New Year; antimony trioxide slipping while SiC firms Read More

• CI plans taphole clay project 18 February 2010

  Australia’s CI Ceramics builds pilot plant for resin-bonded refractory monolithics Read More

• Steyuan to up metspar capacity 18 February 2010

  Chinese metallurgical fluorspar producer eyes 50,000 tpa as market tightens Read More

• Minelco to close Seqi olivine 17 February 2010

  World’s second largest olivine producer to shut down Greenland mine by November Read More

• US minerals slump in 2009 17 February 2010

  Total value drops 20% to $57.1bn as USA increases reliance on imports Read More

• Chromite prices under question 17 February 2010

  European buyers say non-met prices unchanged as suppliers push increases Read More

• Imerys profits take a hit 15 February 2010

  French mineral producer's Q4 profits fall 13% as end markets remain depressed Read More