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July 2019
19 July 2019
Market participants in China reported tighter supply of fluorspar in the week ended July 19 due to worsening weather conditions and environmental inspections, but the price of acidspar held firm.
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09 July 2019
US business could suffer to the tune of millions of dollars if president Donald Trump’s import tariffs on Mexican produce, intended to curb illegal immigration, take hold.
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05 July 2019
Metspar with 90% CaF2 content is now being sold at a higher price than the higher-purity acidspar, sources confirmed this week.
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03 July 2019
China’s government has continued to open some resources to outside investment in 2019 after granting permits to foreign companies in areas including fluorspar and opening up for graphite exploration and exploitation as well as the smelting and separation of rare earths in 2018.
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02 July 2019
Fastmarkets IM compiles the key takeaways from the 34th edition of the fine and speciality chemicals event, Chemspec, held in Basel, Switzerland on June 26-27.
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02 July 2019
Chinese refrigerant companies are looking to maximize output before capacities are fixed and then reduced annually until the more environmentally harmful chemicals are phased out altogether.
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June 2019
24 June 2019
A source has reported that Canada Fluorspar is close to hitting 50% capacity utilization.
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21 June 2019
Fastmarkets has standardized the names of our metals and minerals prices across our product suite for ease of use and greater transparency.
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19 June 2019
Fastmarkets IM has today discontinued its price for acidspar, 97% CaF2, wet filtercake, cif, US Gulf Port, USA, $/tonne.
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18 June 2019
Vietnam's tungsten miner Masan Resources has hired former Amalgamated Metals Corporation (AMC) trader William Parry-Jones, the company told Fastmarkets on Thursday June 13.
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18 June 2019
Metspar was trading at higher levels than acid-grade material, market participants said this week, but Fastmarkets IM's fluorspar price assessments remained unchanged due to a lack of confirmation from the buy-side of the market.
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17 June 2019
Having already missed several of its own production deadlines, Sepfluor is still yet to produce any material at 97% grade, three sources have told Fastmarkets IM.
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05 June 2019
US President Donald Trump is attempting to place a tariff on Mexico-origin imports, which would levy an initial 5% tariff on 300,000 tonnes of fluorspar.