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5,000 tonnes CCM to Antwerp and Rotterdam
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DBM production to start this month
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Three-year deal with European trader
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Turkey’s Kumas acquires Bommag Manyezit
Mike O’Driscoll
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| Ma’aden earlier this year started initial production of CCM at its 39,000 tpa magnesite processing plant in Al Madinah Al Munawarah, western Saudi Arabia. Ma’aden |
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Saudi Arabia’s much evaluated and long-promised source of magnesia has finally come to fruition and is expected to hit the European market in early June.
The news will certainly silence some of the sceptics, of which there were more than a few at IM’s 5th MagMin Conference held in Madrid, Spain, 16-17 May, who questioned whether the operation had even come on stream yet.
As reported in IM, Saudi Arabian Mining Co. (Ma’aden) earlier this...