Price Briefing: Week 44 — Magnesia, boron, barytes
By Siobhan Lismore-Scott
Published: Thursday, 03 November 2011
Boron prices to remain stable to 2012; magnesia fire sale to end
Chinese magnesia
has experienced an unusual period of low price levels this
autumn as exporters and traders have rushed to sell their
official 2011 export quotas of the material
One US buyer described the situation as a “magnesia
fire sale” and said that prices had come down
considerably, some by...