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A brief look at the rest of the week’s rare earths stories in the news
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Continuing low Chinese iron ore demand pushes Baltic Dry Index down
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Refractories producer Vesuvius and foundry materials supplier Foseco under review
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A brief look at the rest of the week’s graphite stories in the news
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Lithium, borates and steel sector looks bullish; flatness in potash
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South Asian country storms ahead on paper and plastics growth in Asia
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A brief look at the rest of the week’s potash stories in the news
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A brief look at the rest of the week’s phosphate stories in the news
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Gravity mapping underway in Zimbabwe, to be concluded by June
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A brief look at the rest of the week’s lithium stories in the news
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Raw materials cost leads to Industrial division loss
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Market loses faith in Chinese iron ore demand; coal producers scramble for buyers
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A brief look at the rest of the week’s graphite stories in the news
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Electricity prices in South Africa increase by 54% over three years
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Company loss for the year doubles; rutile prices to rise
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A time for reflection in rare earths, feedstocks; energy bites for Imerys
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Market grows cautious that processing costs and complexity could derail developers
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A brief look at the rest of the week’s potash stories in the news
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A brief look at the rest of the week’s phosphate stories in the news
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US and Latin American rig counts drop; all others remain steady
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A brief look at the rest of the week’s lithium stories in the news
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Fall in demand for rare earths in electronics leads to 8% fall Rhodia says
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Production to increase 16% by 2015 but not enough to meet growing demand
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Cheap coal prompts China to switch to imports while iron ore remains steady
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World Titanium Resources receives mining licence for Madagascar minsands mine
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Short-term deficit followed by surplus forecast keeps market on its toes
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Oil and gas industry benefits from buys, but at what cost for the frac market?
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A brief look at the rest of the week’s graphite stories in the news
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A brief look at the rest of the week’s phosphate stories in the news
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A brief look at the rest of the week’s potash stories in the news
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“We expect to continue to raise our selling prices,” says CEO
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A brief look at the rest of the week’s lithium stories in the news
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Chinese expansion to continue; US nears 2007 levels; Japan keeps on falling
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Sales drop in lithium segment on the back of plant downtimes
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IM looks at the economics of electric vehicles and li-ion batteries
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Company benefits from price increases, and global drilling activity
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South Graphite Co. Ltd is in the process of creating a government-sponsored monopoly on amorphous graphite resources in Hunan pxrovince, China, industry sources told IM in April
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‘Resource strategy’ entails more than simply mining and selling products; it encompasses issues such as capacity planning, expansion timing, and political mindset, as Jeff Loehr explains
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With the cost of refractory minerals rising, consumers are increasingly looking for partial or total substitutes to minerals such as bauxite and magnesia. Pasek discusses the applications for the magnesium silicate mineral, dunite
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Fused magnesia (FM) sources remain limited worldwide despite positive demand outlook for refractory grades.
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The zircon industry has long been tied closely together with the titanium dioxide (TiO2) feedstock industry. Although the two industrial minerals have widely different end uses and supply chains, ilmenite and rutile, used to make TiO2, and zircon are often found in the same deposits. This means that the shortage in supply of titanium feedstocks, that has sent prices rocketing in the last 18 months, will have an impact on the zircon industry.
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Xiaoling Liu, recently appointed CEO of Rio Tinto Minerals, spoke to IM about the company’s industrial minerals projects, strategies and markets
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By March most companies had submitted their end of year accounts with differing forecasts for the year ahead. While a producer is unlikely to emphasise a fall in sales or volume, most seen so far have been relatively bullish when mentioning prices
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Minsands focus could turn to welding as global demand increases for the sector
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Demand for solar salt in recent years has resulted in tighter supplies and higher prices. Vladimir M. Sedivy outlines new methods for solar salt harvesting to increase efficiency and profitability of solar saltworks
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A greater number of low- and middle-income economies are becoming mineral-dependent, and the degree of dependence is rising – bringing with it increased risks that countries fall victim to the resource curse, as Dan Haglund explains
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Mark Arnesen, Gulf Industrials Ltd; Anthony Parnell, Albemarle Corp.; Avi Doitchman, ICL Group; Peter Davies, Image Resources NL; Ron Chamberlain, Gunson Resources
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