Industrial Minerals


Supply cutbacks firm zircon

20 January 2010


Zircon prices proving robust despite weak market, as Iluka announces 2009 results

Keywords: zircon, ceramics, refractories, Iluka, minsands

Although zircon prices are lower now than in the beginning of 2009, shrewd moves by one of the market leaders look to keep zircon pricing robust going into 2010. 

 

The year 2009 was exceptional for zircon, as with many minerals, in that demand was decimated as the global economic crisis took hold. Buyers simply stopped purchasing, owing to uncertainty in their end-user markets.

 

In a new report, Australian mineral...