Industrial Minerals

Trading, Logistics, Finance

• BDI stays volatile as grain season fizzles out 23 May 2013

  Sustainability of Chinese steel output questioned as prices remain weak Read More

• Galaxy Lithium turns to shareholders for help 20 May 2013

  Lithium junior owes $117m in loans and $62m in bonds; Trading suspension extended Read More

• BDI falls off as uncertainty remains over Chinese iron ore 16 May 2013

  Crops support seaborne markets with bumper harvests predicted this year Read More

• Graphite: opaque pricing and junior “bubble” deters investors 14 May 2013

  Investors seek “good stories” with robust economics to weather price falls Read More

• Baltic Dry Index bounces on China imports 09 May 2013

  Shipping rates rise on higher Chinese, Japanese, imports; coal also looking up Read More

• Private equity – the last bastion of mining finance 08 May 2013

  Direct investment could offer alternative to stocks and hedges, say experts Read More

• Regulation: Countdown to REACH IM May 2013

  The countdown to the next REACH deadline of 31 May is underway. REACH is the European Union (EU) regulation on chemicals and their safe use, which came into force on 1 June 2007. It deals with the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemical substances. Read More

• People and places: May 2013 IM May 2013

  Eric Noyrez, CEO of Lynas Corp. speaks to Siobhan Lismore about supply, demand and the company's LAMP in Malaysia Read More

• Global logistics: redevelopments, relocations and revivals IM May 2013

  Two developments planned for the far north-west of the US are set to boost the presence of the Port of Portland, Oregon, in the industrial minerals logistics market. The port is already one of the largest bulk mineral exporters in the US and a leading car, wheat and container transit point Read More

• Consolidation on the cards for Chinese flake graphite industry IM May 2013

  Consolidation may take place within five years; China needs more tech-investment to modernise Read More