Industrial Minerals

Functional Fillers, Pigments

• Industrial Minerals TV: 17 June 2013 19 June 2013

  Halliburton opens new frac sand terminal; Lynas restricts rare earths production Read More

• AMMG confirms Australian minsands resources 18 June 2013

  Baobab Resources will not be focusing on exploiting TiO2 resource in Mozambique Read More

• Work stops at Kronos’s Canadian TiO2 plant 17 June 2013

  Tronox settles bargaining agreement at South Africa mineral sands operations Read More

• Imerys hikes prices for US filtration minerals 11 June 2013

  No energy surcharge for North America while European charges remain Read More

• Cristal final TiO2 producer to announce price hikes 10 June 2013

  All hikes 10-30% lower than Q1 increases; largest increase for Latin America Read More

• More TiO2 pigment price increases as Huntsman and ISK step up 06 June 2013

  New prices lower than those announced earlier in the year Read More

• Price Briefing 31 May – 6 June 06 June 2013

  TiO2 market sees price rises; amorphous graphite and fertliser mineral values slip Read More

• Sierra Rutile reaches nameplate capacity at Lanti dry mining 05 June 2013

  Latin Resources abandons Heldmaier prospect to focus on Los Conchales Read More

• Crimea TITAN purchases $14.3m TiO2 feedstock mining equipment 04 June 2013

  Caterpillar equipment to replace existing Volnogorsk stock; improve ore mining Read More

• TiO2 World Summit: End users to continue with substitution efforts IM June 2013

  This May, in an egregiously wet Barcelona, Spain, the Smithers Rapra Titanium Dioxide (TiO2) World Summit was held and the central message was that TiO2 pigment producers must rebuild the bridges that they burnt so badly during 2011 and 2012. Read More

• Kronos sees 7% slide in TiO2 prices IM June 2013

  The major developments in the titanium dioxide (TiO2) pigment industry during May revolved around US-based Kronos Worldwide Inc. Read More

• Quarzwerke confirms Kaolin AD acquisition 03 June 2013

  “Logical step” for both companies follows European kaolin consolidation trend Read More

• Tronox and DuPont raise TiO2 prices 31 May 2013

  Follows on from Kronos price rises, but jury is out as to whether these will stick Read More

• FLSmidth divests paper technology unit to Metso 30 May 2013

  Metso to provide Chinese pulp producer with high-speed tissue production line Read More

• Kenya to review mining sector licensing policy 28 May 2013

  Proposals favour investors over speculators in effort to boost resource development Read More

• Tronox Fairbreeze minsands mine now has clear path to production 28 May 2013

  Mtunzini Conservancy drop Supreme Court appeal; Tronox to pay legal costs Read More

• Evonik to build precipitated silica plant in Brazil 24 May 2013

  Green tyre market in South America to see substantial growth Read More

• Rwanda slaps 4% royalty tax on industrial minerals 23 May 2013

  New government measures to diversify mining and develop mineral revenue Read More

• Shale gas could provide up to a third of UK energy needs 23 May 2013

  Unconventional energy source could offer cheap power to UK industry Read More

• Rockwood receives bids for TiO2 pigment arm 21 May 2013

  Several private equity firms reportedly meeting with Rockwood management Read More

• AMMG kaolin processing technology produces 99.99% HPA 21 May 2013

  Company intends to further develop process to produce 6N purity levels Read More

• Iluka to push ahead with Virginia TiO2 feedstock development 20 May 2013

  Rebound for US minsands operations after 2012 idling of nearby mine and plant Read More