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March 2019
19 March 2019
UK customers have increased orders of natural graphite on mounting uncertainty of trade agreements after the UK leaves the European Union.
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18 March 2019
Pilbara Minerals intends to produce battery-grade lithium chemicals in South Korea through a joint venture with Posco.
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15 March 2019
The Chilean lithium miner can now proceed with a two-phase plan to more than double domestic capacity over the next few years after local authorities gave the go-ahead.
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15 March 2019
The price range for China-origin soda ash has narrowed to its smallest gap for two years at $5 per tonne, with supplies of light-grade material becoming tight.
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14 March 2019
The miner achieved lower than expected average prices in the quarter, but remains optimistic as output increases.
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12 March 2019
Chinese antimony suppliers have cut their prices in a bid to attract buyers - but the European domestic market remains steady for now
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12 March 2019
Chilean miner SQM expects to increase its sales volumes of lithium compounds by 2025 to 150,000 tonnes per year, with production capacity also rising to 180,000 tpy, spurred by growing demand.
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08 March 2019
Prices for two grades of bauxite have ticked downward, as has the price for white fused alumina, but brown fused alumina remained stable, with the market said to be mostly flat on limited activity.
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06 March 2019
New entrants looking to establish a position in chromite supply are bidding aggressively to secure business, amid a bearish market scenario.
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05 March 2019
Ciner Group will be the world’s largest soda ash producer in five years’ time, once it completes its latest capacity expansion program.
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01 March 2019
Trade log for battery-grade lithium carbonate in China including trades, bids and offers reported to Fastmarkets.
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February 2019
28 February 2019
The andalusite market remains buoyant on refractories demand and ongoing issues with alternative raw materials such as Chinese bauxite, but participants are hopeful the ripple effects of the 2017 shortage may finally be coming to an end.
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26 February 2019
Imerys will focus on cash generation and cost control this year to combat challenging business that will spill over from the end of last year, it said.
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26 February 2019
Sepfluor will miss a target for production of the first fluorspar from its Nokeng project in South Africa by the end of February, according to a video published by the company on its website.
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26 February 2019
US flat glass sales rebound in 2018, with producers forecasting another positive year in 2019
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26 February 2019
The global seaborne antimony trioxide market has softened week on week because of low demand in China and that country’s wider influence. Domestic prices in Europe have fallen but the US market remained steady.
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26 February 2019
The agreement covers up to 60% of the miner’s expected output of flake graphite.
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22 February 2019
Production of soda ash has been steadily returning to the Chinese market, and this has resulted in the export price for the material softening in this week’s assessment.
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22 February 2019
A newly signed agreement means that trader Traxys will market 200 tonnes per year of flake graphite for Canadian producer Nouveau Monde, increasing to 25,000 tpy in the following five years, as the miner ramps up from demonstration phase to full commercial production.
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21 February 2019
Canada’s North American Lithium has halted lithium spodumene production temporarily because of the fall of $200 per tonne in prices for the commodity in the Chinese market over the second half of 2018.
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20 February 2019
Low-grade ore and unplanned maintenance problems harmed production in the second and third quarters of 2018, but Ciner Resources produced a record amount of soda ash in the October-December quarter.
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19 February 2019
Brine dilution due to rainfall kept production at Orocobre’s Olaroz lithium facility similar year on year, although ramp-ups continue at the Argentine site.
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19 February 2019
Producer Livent has announced its intention to resume the lithium carbonate contract arbitration process with miner Nemaska that was started in July 2018.
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18 February 2019
Ahead of Fastmarkets’ Battery Materials 2019 conference in Shanghai, our lithium reporters talk about the hottest topics in the lithium industry in China and the Asian market.
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18 February 2019
Image Resources completed a ramp-up project at the Bonnanarring mineral sands project after two months rather than the originally anticipated six.
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18 February 2019
The company, which sees volatile market conditions continuing this year, will focus on cash generation and cost control to reduce business risk.
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13 February 2019
Lithium producer Livent's revenue and income rose year on year supported by growth in global sales of electric vehicles.
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12 February 2019
A local government in Kenya says that Tata Chemicals has defaulted on payments for land rates for several years, with local media reporting that the resulting dispute could lead to a soda ash facility being closed.
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12 February 2019
Tronox and the US FTC have filed a joint motion to delay the anti-trust approval process while the titanium dioxide producer puts forward INEOS divestment.
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08 February 2019
Markets saw a second consecutive round of contract price increases for calcined alumina material, but a change in feedstock costs dynamics and availability could soften the market later in the year.
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08 February 2019
US flat glass sales largely rebounded last year and producers are forecasting another positive year for sales in 2019, while soda ash supply tightness continues.
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05 February 2019
Sepfluor has set a new target for the start of production of acid-grade fluorspar at Nokeng - after heavy rains slowed construction work of the plant at the end of last year, market sources suggested.
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01 February 2019
The newly launched business for specialty alumina, NICHE, will incorporate Gramercy’s alumina hydrate operation and ARC’s white fused alumina business in France; the company does not rule out further acquisitions in future.
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01 February 2019
Fastmarkets is reducing the frequency of market assessments of magnesia after market consultation