Industrial Minerals

Ceramics, Glass

• Price Briefing: Week 31 30 July 2010

  Mixed fortunes this week, as cerium and lanthanum oxide prices power ahead Read More

• Imerys buys Vale kaolin asset 30 July 2010

  Majority stake in Para Pigmentos acquired for $70m. as Imerys expands in Brazil Read More

• Imerys Q2 profit rises 88% 30 July 2010

  Upturn in refractories, abrasives, graphite demand boosts results for French group Read More

• MTI sees five-fold profits boost 30 July 2010

  Minerals Technologies reports stronger Q2 on refractories, PCC sales recovery Read More

• Soda ash sales boost Solvay Q2 29 July 2010

  Chemicals unit increases profit by 11% as soda ash and fluorochem volumes recover Read More

• Antimony trioxide prices fall 29 July 2010

  Chinese stop-start production and rumours driving wide price fluctuations Read More

• FMC’s Q2 profits up 35% 29 July 2010

  Earnings up 35% as lithium, phosphate and soda ash volumes increase Read More

• Nigeria aims to unlock minerals 28 July 2010

  Barytes, kaolin and limestone targeted for government development fund Read More

• New fund tracks lithium industry 28 July 2010

  Global X Lithium ETF provides boost, but will not be a guide to global demand Read More

• Rockwood profit up 37% in Q2 27 July 2010

  Lithium and TiO2 businesses help drive recovery for US speciality chemicals group Read More

• Borates revival sparked by China August 2010

  Borates market is on the way to recovery. Prices are still low but demand is expected to rise by 4.5% in 2014 Read More

• Novocarb targets soda ash pricing changes August 2010

  French soda ash producer, Novocarb has set out its vision to change the way soda ash is priced in a move that echoes the titanium minerals industry Read More

• Fatal blast at zinc oxide plant 26 July 2010

  Horsehead’s Pennsylvania zinc oxide plant shut down after explosion kills two Read More

• China expands lithium output 23 July 2010

  Qinghai province to boost lithium carbonate production five-fold by 2015 – report Read More

• IM Global Health Check: Q2 2010 22 July 2010

  IM looks at the world’s economy and how it will affect industrial minerals demand for the next quarter and beyond Read More

• Price Briefing: Week 29 22 July 2010

  Antinomy trioxide and rare earths on the rise while traders look to cut chromite Read More

• Iluka reports 85% Q2 sales boost 20 July 2010

  Zircon focus pays dividends as minsands miner’s revenues almost double in Q2 Read More

• Talison enacts lithium expansion 20 July 2010

  Spodumene output at Greenbushes, Australia, to expand 40% by end-2011 Read More

• Iluka expands Eucla resource 20 July 2010

  Typhoon, Tripitaka minsands deposits seen as potential South Australia expansions Read More

• Talison in lithium brine merger 16 July 2010

  World’s biggest spodumene miner merges with Chile lithium brine junior, Salares Read More

• Price Briefing: Week 28 15 July 2010

  Indian barytes poised for hikes while rare earths rise on Chinese quota cuts Read More

• Rare earth fears become reality 15 July 2010

  China’s decision to cut annual rare earth exports by 40% will likely lead to supply shortages and surging prices for the rest of the world Read More

• Netzsch in €1.8m. plant upgrade 15 July 2010

  Thermo-analytical facility in Selb, Germany expanded with €1.8m. investment Read More

• Rio Tinto boosts Q2 output 14 July 2010

  Borates, talc and TiO2 feedstock production rises as end markets bounce back Read More

• China cuts export tax rebates 14 July 2010

  Export tax rebate to be scrapped on more than 400 products from mid-July Read More

• Vietnam kaolin demand rises 12 July 2010

  Prices increase in line with China as demand for ceramics grade up across Asia Read More

• Sibelco UK fined for pollution 12 July 2010

  UK kaolin subsidiary pleads guilty to 2009 pollution of Dorset watercourse Read More