Industrial Minerals


Price Briefing – 10 - 17 May 2012

17 May 2012

by Siobhan Lismore

Lithium, borates and steel sector looks bullish; flatness in potash

Keywords: lithium, borates, potash, Rockwood, Galaxy, RHI, Inkabor, potash

It was a bull week for lithium as Germany’s Rockwood Lithium, a division of Rockwood Holdings Inc., announced it was increasing prices across its lithium salts products by $1,000/tonne.

The changes are effective from 1 July and will encompass lithium carbonate and lithium hydroxide, Rockwood said.

The announcement, unsurprisingly, was welcomed by Galaxy Resources,...