http://www.metalnet.co.uk/RSS.aspx?FeedID=630©2010 Industrial Minerals60Functional Fillers, PigmentsMixed fortunes this week, as cerium and lanthanum oxide prices power aheadhttp://www.metalnet.co.uk/Article/2641668/Price-Briefing-Week-31.htmlFri, 30 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMTUpturn in refractories, abrasives, graphite demand boosts results for French grouphttp://www.metalnet.co.uk/Article/2641765/Imerys-Q2-profit-rises-88.htmlFri, 30 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMTUS group to push for €200/tonne European price hike on 1 Septemberhttp://www.metalnet.co.uk/Article/2641998/Kronos-raises-TiO2-price.htmlFri, 30 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMTMinerals Technologies reports stronger Q2 on refractories, PCC sales recoveryhttp://www.metalnet.co.uk/Article/2642013/MTI-sees-five-fold-profits-boost.htmlFri, 30 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMTChinese stop-start production and rumours driving wide price fluctuationshttp://www.metalnet.co.uk/Article/2640797/Antimony-trioxide-prices-fall.htmlThu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMTBarytes, kaolin and limestone targeted for government development fundhttp://www.metalnet.co.uk/Article/2639629/Nigeria-aims-to-unlock-minerals.htmlWed, 28 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMTCanadian junior expects 600,000 tpa titanium dioxide feedstock production by '13http://www.metalnet.co.uk/Article/2639754/Argex-plans-Quebec-TiO2-project.htmlWed, 28 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMTLack of criticism for industry despite less than perfect recordhttp://www.metalnet.co.uk/Article/2637371/Comment-A-catalogue-of-TiO2-disasters.htmlTue, 27 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMTLithium and TiO2 businesses help drive recovery for US speciality chemicals grouphttp://www.metalnet.co.uk/Article/2638788/Rockwood-profit-up-37-in-Q2.htmlTue, 27 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMTUS chemicals group’s TiO2 segment more than triples profits in Q2 on stronger demandhttp://www.metalnet.co.uk/Article/2638899/DuPont-TiO2-rebounds-in-Q2.htmlTue, 27 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMTAfter designing a symbol for the rupee, India has joined the ranks of only a handful of countries with a currency icon. This is in preparation for the ten years in which, the country believes, it will become an economic superpower. The mining industry, including refractory and white minerals, is central to this planhttp://www.metalnet.co.uk/Article/2638906/India-enters-a-deciding-decade.htmlTue, 27 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMTFord Motor Co.’s research centre in Germany, Ford Forschungszentrum, revealed that it is getting closer to using more natural fibre filled plastics in its autoplasticshttp://www.metalnet.co.uk/Article/2639008/Fords-filler-punch.htmlTue, 27 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMTIn a interview with IM, Neil Gawthorpe, marketing director of Sierra Leone rutile miner, Titanium Resources Group, targets wholesale changes to the way rutile is priced and calls for the sector to take advantage of a ‘golden opportunity’ by Simon Moores, Deputy Editorhttp://www.metalnet.co.uk/Article/2639019/TRG-makes-rutile-pricing-stand.htmlTue, 27 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMTUkraine’s sole miner of titanium dioxide (TiO2) feedstock has blamed the “personal hostility” of former Prime Minister Yulia Timoshenko for the uncertainty over mining licenses it is now facinghttp://www.metalnet.co.uk/Article/2639022/Former-PM-blamed-for-Ukraine-TiO2-doubts.htmlTue, 27 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMTHorsehead’s Pennsylvania zinc oxide plant shut down after explosion kills twohttp://www.metalnet.co.uk/Article/2637692/Fatal-blast-at-zinc-oxide-plant.htmlMon, 26 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMTPaints and coatings start recovery as world’s no.1 producer boosts Q2 profitshttp://www.metalnet.co.uk/Article/2637869/AkzoNobel-boosts-paint-sales.htmlMon, 26 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMTMinerals Technologies’ to supply filler minerals at Ballapur’s Orissa paper millhttp://www.metalnet.co.uk/Article/2636736/MTI-to-build-India-PCC-plant.htmlFri, 23 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMTAntinomy trioxide and rare earths on the rise while traders look to cut chromitehttp://www.metalnet.co.uk/Article/2636030/Price-Briefing-Week-29.htmlThu, 22 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMTZircon focus pays dividends as minsands miner’s revenues almost double in Q2http://www.metalnet.co.uk/Article/2633877/Iluka-reports-85-Q2-sales-boost.htmlTue, 20 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMTTyphoon, Tripitaka minsands deposits seen as potential South Australia expansionshttp://www.metalnet.co.uk/Article/2634085/Iluka-expands-Eucla-resource.htmlTue, 20 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMTGovernment looks for mineral sands project funding, one year after BHP pulled outhttp://www.metalnet.co.uk/Article/2633020/Mozambique-seeks-Chibuto-tender.htmlMon, 19 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMTCrimea Titan in talks with Ukraine government over minsands mining rightshttp://www.metalnet.co.uk/Article/2633162/Ukraine-titanium-in-future-talks.htmlMon, 19 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMTIndian barytes poised for hikes while rare earths rise on Chinese quota cutshttp://www.metalnet.co.uk/Article/2631200/Price-Briefing-Week-28.htmlThu, 15 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMTBorates, talc and TiO2 feedstock production rises as end markets bounce backhttp://www.metalnet.co.uk/Article/2630279/Rio-Tinto-boosts-Q2-output.htmlWed, 14 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMTMurray Basin annual forecast cut by 10% while Jacinth zircon hits target rateshttp://www.metalnet.co.uk/Article/2629308/Delayed-ramp-up-for-Iluka-rutile.htmlTue, 13 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMTDeal expected in Q3 2010 to fund Coburn zircon project in Western Australiahttp://www.metalnet.co.uk/Article/2628706/Gunson-seeks-zircon-finance.htmlMon, 12 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMTStallingborough, UK, plant lifts force majeure on all production except TiO2http://www.metalnet.co.uk/Article/2628737/Cristal-keeps-FM-on-TiO2-output.htmlMon, 12 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT