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September 2019
13 September 2019
Weak demand for acidspar persists in China but the US market has been reported as short of material.
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06 September 2019
Market participants have been saying for weeks that domestic demand for acidspar was softening in China. This has now been shown to be correct, with the price falling by 4%.
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03 September 2019
Payment of value-added tax at 13% is being avoided by some Chinese exporters, and any government crackdown on tax avoidance to solve this problem could affect the viability of the country’s fluorspar exports.
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02 September 2019
The consequences of China’s environmental inspections crippled supplies of fluorspar to the rest of the world in 2018, and the material now comes at a premium although quality and delivery are not guaranteed. Michael Greenfield examines how European and US consumers of the mineral are looking elsewhere to secure their supply chains.
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August 2019
30 August 2019
The price for 97% CaF2 content acidspar was flat again in the week to August 30, with market participants on the buy and sell sides, both in and out of China, reporting weakening demand.
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23 August 2019
For the past 18 months price movement has been driven by supply cuts in China following environmental inspections, but now the focus is on how downstream demand is influencing acidspar pricing.
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22 August 2019
Indian fluorochemical producer GFL is adding capacity for a further 20,000 tonnes per year to its acidspar production assets in northeast Morocco.
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22 August 2019
Junior miner Sepfluor has yet to produce commercially viable acidspar material despite the official opening of its Nokeng mine in South Africa at the start of this month.
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07 August 2019
A growing trade spat in East Asia could disrupt the trade in lithium cobalt batteries, flurochemicals, and minor metals.
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07 August 2019
Export volumes of fluorspar out of China edged downward in the first half of 2019, but the average price went up on the impetus of rises in the domestic price, driven by tight supply.