The ethos of survival for industrial mineral producers has always been one of market diversification, ie. don’t have all your mineral eggs in one market basket. Therefore, new markets such as the continuing development of alternative sources of power generation are attracting much interest.
This fledgling market sector has thrown up an array of exciting new opportunities for industrial mineral applications. The trick of course, is securing, and then processing, the right raw material to make the correct grade for a particular application.
Offshore wind farm Lillgrund being built in the
Oresund between Malmo and Copenhagen
Siemens press picture
Most applications for minerals in this growth market are low volume but high value, and demand tight raw material specifications.
Some of the new energy technologies are more advanced than others, and have already sparked widespread interest among mineral developers and investors in their anticipation of future market demand...