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Andalusite and kyanite players emerge and expand capacity as sillimanite minerals target bauxite substitution in refractory market recovery
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Despite increasing attempts to pursue green technologies, the world’s thirst for oil and gas is set to ensure robust drilling mineral demand for decades
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Following last month’s article on Brazil’s fertiliser minerals market, IM looks at the country’s key minerals including bauxite, magnesite and kaolin, while reviewing ceramic, cement, and refractories markets
by Alexandra Feytis, Assistant Editor
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Michael Chester of Tractus Asia looks at how
China’s alternative energy push is set to see mineral demand roar in the Year of the Tiger
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IM reviews Arab Potash’s mine to market chain to see how it has established itself as one of the leading potash producers in the Middle East
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Summary of industrial mineral prices listed in monthly IM issue.
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The UK consumes a year’s worth of salt in five weeks as extreme weather grips northern Europe
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Bauxite and brown fused alumina affected, while concerns emerge over fluorspar export quota
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Following a year of vastly reduced production capacity utilisation, rapidly developing Asian economies are forecast to provide new opportunities for glass and soda ash
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New RE deposits acquired in North America and Kyrgystan as prices in China rise sharply owing to shortage
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Double the world’s graphite needed to satisfy projected lithium-ion battery production; synthetic the most promising suitor
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South Korea’s biggest steel producer and the world’s largest car maker invest in lithium developers as the search for supply security heats up
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The downturn in the potash market has lasted longer than many expected as prices sink below $400/tonne, but analysts predict a recovery in 2011
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Production eyed for 2010 as Oregon Resources gets waste, plant and mining approvals for Coos Bay heavy mineral sands
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Potash producers finally begin to bow to low market demand
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US pigment producer stops Huntsman Corp. takeover after taking out $425m. loan led by Goldman Sachs
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Titanium dioxide consumption set to grow 15% in 2010 as China’s stimulus sparks a surge in automobile production
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Luzenac’s microcrystalline talc, Mistron®, has been developed for partial replacement of carbon black in rubber compounds
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IM examines the features and benefits of Xstrata Process Support’s new automated pilot plant in Ontario, Canada
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Montreal-based Exploration Orbite VSPA. Inc. is working towards producing alumina at its Grande-Vallée property, an aluminous clay deposit located in the Gaspe region, Quebec, Canada. The project will come as good news for alumina industry players looking for alternatives to bauxite
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Uralkali, Denis Morozov; RHI, Henning Jensen; Victory Nickel, Cynthia Thomas, Roland Horst; Opta Minerals, David Ascott; USMMA, Jack Lifton, Stan Trout, Tony Morcos
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Leading refractories producer RHI AG has won a contract worth €4.5m. ($6.4m.) to supply refractory systems for Siemens VAI Metals Technologies GmbH & Co. at two of its steel mill construction projects in India and Russia
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Following its announcement to raise INR12,000m.($260m.) by equity sale, cement, magnesia, and refractories producer Dalmia Cement (Bharat) Ltd saw its shares slip almost 7% to INR203.45($4.41) on 19 January 2010
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Spain’s Mario Pilato Blat SA trades minerals for the refractories, glass, ceramics and fertilisers sectors. Mario Pilato Blat, president and general manager, underlined to IM the challenges of the recession and the potential growth of alternative energy sources
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