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By IM Staff
Published: 17 Oct 2018
Here are eight key things Fastmarkets learned at the aluminium trade show in Dusseldorf on October 9-11 and during LME Week in London.
By Michael Greenfield
Michael Greenfield
Published: 12 Oct 2018
Concerns over water supplies, and sales that exceed production, have made market participants worry that the already-tight iodine market could move into undersupply unless SQM, the world’s largest producer, boosts its capacity utilization.
By Michael Greenfield
Michael Greenfield
Published: 01 Oct 2018
For the fourth year since 2011, there was a permanent reduction in the global supply of fluorspar in 2017, resulting in shortness of material and price increases, factors which were among the main topics at conversation at Industrial Minerals’ annual fluorspar event.
By Davide Ghilotti
Published: 26 Sep 2018
Attendees discuss how market participants will secure supply for the coming year, and how prices are expected to perform going forward.
Published: 20 Sep 2018
Industrial Minerals is launching a Wisconsin coarse-mesh frac sand price to track prices with increasing volumes across the expanding frac sand market.
By IM Staff
Published: 14 Sep 2018
Metal Bulletin, a leading source of trusted and transparent commodities data for the metals and mining markets, has successfully completed an external assurance review of some of its benchmark prices carried out by independent professional services company PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).
By Carrie Shi
Published: 05 Sep 2018
Authorities in China’s magnesia production hub of Dashiqiao have shut down 87 local companies that did not meet new environmental standards. But despite this, China’s magnesia export prices stood still on thin buying.