Price briefing 9-15 June
By IM Staff
Published: Friday, 16 June 2017
Bauxite prices rocket higher; fluorspar spot market in Europe tracked China higher; antimony trioxide prices soften; titanium dioxide prices could rise further; according to Chinese producer Lomon Billions.
Bauxite
Chinese bauxite spot prices rocket higher in mid-June as the
government targets remaining illegal calcining operations to
further stamp out polluting facilities, which will slash yet
more supply.
Mining operations in major bauxite-producing regions Shanxi
and Guizhou were mostly suspended in May as the central
government ramped...