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Indian barite tender likely to raise prices for years ahead [UPDATE]

Friday, 29 April 2022

Barite prices were likely to jump upward on the outcome of a tender in India early this month whose results have taken market participants by surprise.
Indian barite tender likely to raise prices for years ahead

Thursday, 28 April 2022

Barite prices were likely to jump upward on the outcome of a tender in India early this month whose results have taken market participants by surprise.
Barite prices rise, tracking volatile energy costs

Wednesday, 06 April 2022

Barite prices increased in March as the energy crisis worsened, with rising fuel costs affecting business operations.
Barite prices poised to increase following recent oil price jump

Wednesday, 09 March 2022

The geopolitical situation that has slowly unfolded in Ukraine over February gave rise for oil prices to increase significantly in the month. Barite has seen incentives to rise despite being slightly detached from daily crude oil price movements.

Indian barite tender likely to raise prices for years ahead

Thursday, 28 April 2022

Barite prices were likely to jump upward on the outcome of a tender in India early this month whose results have taken market participants by surprise.
Barite prices rise, tracking volatile energy costs

Wednesday, 06 April 2022

Barite prices increased in March as the energy crisis worsened, with rising fuel costs affecting business operations.
Indian barite prices decline; other regions stable

Wednesday, 02 February 2022

Indian barite prices have fallen at the start of the year, with reports of offers moving lower while availability is growing.
Open consultation on industrial minerals methodology: Pricing notice

Monday, 08 November 2021

Fastmarkets is inviting feedback from the industry on its pricing methodology for industrial minerals, as part of its announced annual methodology review process.

Oil price falls crush frac sand demand

Monday, 08 June 2020

The global Covid-19 pandemic has plunged the oil market into an unprecedented slump, threatening a complete reshaping of the oilfield mineral market. One of the hardest hit industries is likely to be frac sand mining.
Download the March 2020 issue of MMM

Tuesday, 10 March 2020

Welcome to the March 2020 issue of the Metal Market Magazine, which features extended and analytical content on energy trends and steel tube and pipe products.
Oilfield minerals face falling US drilling activity

Tuesday, 10 March 2020

Markets for oilfield minerals like frac sand and barite are being influenced by national policies and international trade, reports William Clarke.
Indian mining: Stuck in the slow lane

Friday, 01 November 2019

Frustration at the lack of progress in India’s mining sector was simmering at the annual FIMI meeting in Delhi in September. Sunder Singh discovers how many in the industry believe that, far from advancing, mineral production in India is going backwards.