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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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Lithium deal is as much about attracting investment as it is long term security
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Indian barytes poised for hikes while rare earths rise on Chinese quota cuts
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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
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Export tax rebate to be scrapped on more than 400 products from mid-July
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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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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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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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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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Summary of industrial mineral prices listed in monthly IM issue
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20 Microns’ new grades of attapulgite and bentonite-based thickeners provide extra viscosity to water- and solvent-borne paints and coatings
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IM examines the validity of Bolivia’s $300m. lithium carbonate ambitions and the implications for the auto and portable battery industry
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Looking to fill the void: Filler grade barytes is suffering from the severe downturn in the auto industry leaving some with a demand shortfall of up to 50%. While times are hard, barytes diversity, outside of its dominant use as an oil drilling medium, is set to give necessary future stability to producers
by Simon Moores, Senior Assistant Editor
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Export trade issues appear to have little impact on positive signs for China’s economic recovery and good market prospects for certain minerals. These and other topics are up for discussion at IM’s 8th Chinese Industrial Minerals Conference in Qingdao, 7-9 September
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Sorted for plastics: as talc’s filler use in paper continues to decrease, Ian Wilson discovers how the mineral’s role in polymers and cars looks set to drive the future market
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