Industrial Minerals


Price Briefing –21 - 28 June 2012

28 June 2012

by Siobhan Lismore

Lithium makes the headlines, fluorspar market mixed

Keywords: fluorspar, potash, lithium, Uralkali, Talison, Dahlman Rose and Co

Lithium prices dominated mainstream press headlines this week after Bloomberg ran an article suggesting that shares in producer companies were being bought up on the back of tablet popularity.

“We expect that demand from mobile devices will continue to trend higher, supporting lithium prices, and likely pushing them higher,” Dahlman Rose and Co said in a note this week.

“Further, if hybrid and electric vehicle demand continues to increase, as we expect, this will have a positive impact on lithium demand. With one price increase recently announced, we anticipate...