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April 2017
27 April 2017
See article below, from the May issue of Industrial Minerals, for market updates on price movements in various industrial minerals. Minerals featured this month include: lithium, graphite, chromite, alumina, fluorspar, magnesia, antimony trioxide, fluorspar, rare earths, silicon carbide
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27 April 2017
IM's monthly price movements.
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21 April 2017
Beijing has intensified efforts to clamp down on tax evasion for both imports and exports in China. As a result, sellers who previously were resorting to various ways to avoid paying VAT have now raised their bauxite prices to include the tax in order to avoid prosecution.
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21 April 2017
Beijing has intensified efforts to clamp down on tax evasion on industrial minerals imports and exports to and from China.
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21 April 2017
A clampdown on tax evasion lifts China-origin bauxite; brown fused alumina remains unchanged; antimony trioxide prices in Europe increased; Chinese silicon carbide output cut could support European market; iodine prices rise.
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07 April 2017
Chromite buying activities may increase in Q2; fluorspar prices outside China flat but demand expected to improve; spherical graphite stagnant; white fused alumina prices fall
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07 April 2017
Falling raw material costs pulled white fused alumina prices lower in early April, but the supply outlook remained uncertain in China.