Dwindling supply lifts Chinese calcined bauxite prices
By Yoke Wong
Published: Friday, 25 August 2017
Further crackdown on environmental rule-breaking plants in Shanxi have slashed calcined bauxite output, pushing prices up over the past fortnight.
Chinese calcined bauxite spot prices increased over the past
fortnight as the already tight supply dwindled
further amid more governmental shutdown of production
facilities.
The Shanxi government announced 11 August that all
plants that breached environmental standards in the refractory
minerals producing province will be closed by the end of...