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December 2014
31 December 2014
A tough year for fluorspar producers sees acidspar prices fall 13% as metspar market stagnates.
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30 December 2014
Andres Mugica, director of leading fluorspar producer Mexichem Fluor, speaks to IM about the challenges facing the fluorspar and fluorochemicals market and discusses how Mexichem Fluor is positioned to deal with these.
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19 December 2014
The revival of fluorspar projects with low arsenic content in Mexico is a positive news for North American and European fluorochemical producers, which welcome source diversification in order to guarantee a more sustainable and reliable future raw material supply.
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19 December 2014
Fluorspar price review: Market stable as producers seek to preserve prices for 2015 contracts
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19 December 2014
A tough year for fluorspar producers sees acidspar prices fall 13% as metspar market stagnates
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18 December 2014
End-market update: Slowing steel production to prohibit demand growth; price recovery unlikely
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18 December 2014
Preliminary positive results from assays on samples from the third phase of the company’s exploration programme at its MB fluorspar project in Nevada gives Tertiary confidence about the possibility to further expand resources and to become a potential leading acidspar supplier in North America.
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12 December 2014
By achieving encouraging preliminary results from the third phase of exploration at its MB project in the US and advancing permits application in Sweden, the junior company is well positioned to become a potential fluorspar supplier in two strategic markets: Europe and the US. New funding remains a challenge for the company in this financial environment.
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11 December 2014
Fluorspar price review: Weak demand continues to limit hopes of a price upturn approaching the new year
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04 December 2014
Fluorspar price review: Producers struggle to preserve prices for 2015; sales into Europe settled at lower levels
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03 December 2014
The French fluorochemicals producer believes that an increase in prices for its fluor-gases brand will allow the company to return to a more sustainable supply chain and to regain competitiveness within the new European Commission’s regulations on hydrofluorocarbons.
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01 December 2014
Forecast expansion in motor magnets and catalysts consumption in cars; US ITC removes antidumping duties on imports of Chinese refrigerants; TiO2 market under pressure due to lack of demand from China’s construction industry.
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November 2014
28 November 2014
Supply update: Efforts to exploit Afghanistan’s mineral reserves to increase metspar capacities; acidspar production set for 2015
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27 November 2014
Fluorspar price review: Low-cost offers ease, leaving prices stable approaching the new year
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27 November 2014
Chemours to focus on TiO2 and fluorochemicals; High demand for HFOs in developing countries
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27 November 2014
Chinese refrigerants do not harm US industry; US ITC abolishes payment of antidumping duties; Mexichem considers appealing against ITC
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21 November 2014
By completing the phase three exploration at its MB fluorspar project in Nevada ahead of schedule, the junior company is speeding up operations to develop a major fluorspar deposit in the US and strengthen its position to become a potential supplier in this strategic market.
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20 November 2014
Fluorspar price review: Prices stagnate approaching 2015 with few signs of imminent upturn
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19 November 2014
The announcement of more minerals opened to foreign investment policies by China’s Ministry of Commerce shows the country’s intention to adapt to the new economic globalisation, while actively promoting more efficiency in its mining industry.
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17 November 2014
The spin-off of the US-based chemicals producer’s performance chemical business unit will allow the new fluorochemical company to optimise costs and focus on more strategic investments to boost its fluorochemicals business, in light of growing demand from emerging economies.
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17 November 2014
The US bodies’ resolution, which judged that Chinese fluorochemical imports do not injure the US industry, contradicts the ruling from the US Department of Commerce in October, and it is likely that world’s leading producer Mexichem will appeal against the verdict.
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14 November 2014
Supply update: Solvay’s Namibia mine becomes first major victim of weak market conditions
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14 November 2014
Price growth optimism fades for fluorspar, TiO2 and rare earths
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14 November 2014
The 4th South East Asia event showcased the ample opportunity in the region, as well as the companies already looking at exploiting the resources to hand. Highlighted was the significant upside potential in ceramics, silica sand, high purity quartz, bentonite bleaching earth, diatomite and perlite filter aids.
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13 November 2014
Fluorspar price review: Short-term deals stagnate as consumers look towards new year
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13 November 2014
The country’s government has enacted a number of policies aimed at easing the mining licence prices. Taxes rates have also been altered to attract foreign investors in the country with the aim of boosting fluorspar. China, Russia, South Korea and Japan are seen as regions key to consumption of the mineral.
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12 November 2014
Canada Fluorspar is focusing on a new area of shallow, high-grade fluorspar mineralisation. It aims to develop an open pit mine and a new fluorspar processing plant, which it says could position the company as a major supplier in Europe and North America.
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12 November 2014
While details on the new acidspar producer are for now thin on the ground, news of a new Europe-based supplier could cause a ripple through the industry.
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06 November 2014
Fluorspar price review: Signs of acidspar upturn remain sparse; falling capacities boost longer-term outlook
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03 November 2014
Vesuvius retains earning outlook in Q3; Alevo to build energy storage battery plant in US, Sumitomo Corp. starts test production of rare earths in Kazakhstan