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A summary of China’s battery raw materials exports for April 2022, according to the country’s latest customs data. By Yingchi Yang, Sybil Pan, Carrie Shi, Zihao Li.
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A summary of China’s refractory raw materials exports in April 2022.
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Published by: Yingchi Yang, Carrie Shi, Zihao Li, Sybil Pan
A summary of China’s battery raw materials imports for April 2022, according to the latest Chinese customs data.
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The iodine market is going through another month of tight supply, leaving some buyers desperate for material, Fastmarkets heard on Friday May 20.
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United Kingdom-listed refractory products manufacturer Vesuvius says it has recorded a 60% year-on-year increase in its trading profit for January-April on higher prices.
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Chilean lithium and iodine miner Sociedad Quimica y Minera (SQM) reported increased earnings for the first quarter of 2022, driven by higher prices for their production.
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Key data from the graphite pricing sessions in Asia and Europe for the week ended Thursday May 19.
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Canada-based companies Nouveau Monde Graphite (NMG) and Mason Graphite have entered into an option and joint venture agreement for the development and operation of Mason Graphite’s Lac Guéret graphite concentrate property, according to an announcement by NMG on Monday May 16.
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The strengthening of flake graphite prices since last September has eased with increasing volumes of supplies available following the restart of operations in China’s Heilongjiang province, although the Ukraine-Russia war and new Covid-19 outbreaks in China have added new uncertainties.
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BlackEarth Minerals offers a low-risk profile with a diverse range of graphite flake products from its emerging project on Madagascar, a hotbed of graphite production, managing director Tom Revy told Fastmarkets on Thursday May 12.
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China’s domestic and export markets for fluorspar acidspar have been broadly stable so far in May with no significant fluctuations, sources told Fastmarkets.
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Prices for graphite electrodes widened downward in the two weeks ended Wednesday May 11 due to the rapid fall in value of the Chinese yuan since April 19, and despite support from rising raw material costs.
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Key data from the graphite pricing sessions in Asia and Europe for the week ended Thursday May 12.
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Global refractories supplier RHI Magnesita warned of further price increases driven by energy and freight costs, including air-freight delivery to customers, in a trading report on the first quarter of 2022, published on Thursday May 12.
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Sulfate grade titanium dioxide prices edged lower in the week to Thursday May 12, with reports that ongoing Covid-19-related restrictions in China have dampened the market.
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Magnesia supply and inland logistics were still being affected by waves of Covid-19 infections in China in the week to Thursday May 12, with the overall market remaining static.
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Further details on the future of the Canada Fluorspar mine project have been revealed, with deadlines now set for the sale of the fluorspar operation in St Lawrence, Canada.
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United States-based lithium and bromine miner Albemarle has been working for more than a year to increase the proportion of its supply contracts that are linked to variable pricing because it wants to “move with the market,” company officials said during an earnings call on Thursday May 5.
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Strong demand coupled with tight supply continued to push zircon prices up in the month to Thursday May 5, market participants have told Fastmarkets.
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NextSource Materials plans to harness its partnerships with established producers of coated spherical graphite, using feedstock from its emerging flake project in Madagascar to jump ahead of the competition in the race to produce active anode material, executive vice president Brent Nykoliation has told Fastmarkets.
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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.
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China’s graphite electrodes prices climbed higher in the fortnight to Wednesday April 27 due to rising production costs, especially for needle and petroleum coke.
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Australia-focused mineral sands miner Image Resources has recorded a 37% decrease in production of heavy mineral concentrate (HMC) and a 38% decrease in HMC sales for the first three months of 2022, compared with the final three months of 2021.
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By Janie Davies, Sybil Pan
Prices for brown fused alumina (BFA) dropped sharply over the fortnight to Thursday April 28 on a weakening of the Chinese yuan, while the price for white fused alumina (WFA) was stable on a cif Europe basis, and bauxite prices were mostly steady with tight supply offsetting the lower yuan.
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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.
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Titanium dioxide and inorganic chemicals producer Tronox achieved stronger revenue in the first quarter of 2022 thanks to rising prices for its products, the company said in its first quarter financial results report.
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International mineral sands mining company Iluka Resources achieved a year-on-year increase of 44% in the production of zircon, rutile and synthetic rutile in the first three months of 2022, it said in its latest quarterly review.
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Guangdong Orient Zirconic Ind Sci & Tech Co (OZC) intends to increase its shareholding in Australia-focused mineral sands miner Image Resources.
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Synthetic anode materials maker Hebei Kuntian New Energy has begun construction of an anode production project in the city of Yuxi, in China’s Yunnan province, according to an announcement from the provincial People’s Government.
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China’s imports and exports of fluorspar acidspar both fell in a year-on-year comparison in March 2022 due to fallow buying activity among domestic buyers, supply constraints affecting some global producers, and a slowdown in logistics in China because of new waves of Covid-19 infection.
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A summary of China’s refractory raw materials exports in March 2022.
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Key data from the graphite pricing sessions in Asia and Europe for the week ended Thursday April 21.
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Sulfate-grade titanium dioxide prices edged downward in the week to Thursday April 21, with market participants reporting persistent challenges in China resulting from the recent resurgence of Covid-19 infections in the country.
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Africa-focused mineral sands producer Base Resources has reported a decrease in the volumes of ore mined in the first quarter of 2022, both year-on-year and quarter-on-quarter.
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Emerging graphite company Westwater Resources has begun construction of a graphite processing plant in Alabama, United States.
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Rio Tinto produced 273,000 tonnes of titanium dioxide slag in the first three months of 2022, down by 2% year-on-year, but up by 20% compared with October-December 2021, the company said in its first-quarter operations review, released on Wednesday April 20.
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A summary of Chinese lithium battery materials maker Shanshan’s performance in 2021, according to its report published on Wednesday April 20.
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Refractory-grade bauxite prices mostly ticked upward in the fortnight to Thursday April 14 due to rising land transport costs resulting from China’s Covid-19 control measures. The price of white fused alumina (WFA) went up because of exchange-rate moves while brown fused alumina (BFA) was steady.
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Emerging graphite miner Gratomic will buy three mining operations adjacent to its Capim Grosso project in the Brazilian state of Bahia, the Canadian company said on Tuesday April 12.
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Magnesia production and domestic logistics were still being disrupted in the Chinese city of Haicheng, with two more new cases reported on Monday April 11, and delays to most deliveries, market sources have told Fastmarkets.
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Chinese ceramic ink manufacturer Dowstone Technology is to invest 60 billion yuan ($9.4 billion) to build a plant to produce 150,000 tonnes per year of carbon silicon-based anode material in the city of Lanzhou, in Gansu province, according to a company announcement on Monday April 11.
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Australia-based miner Lake Resources has signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with US carmaker Ford for the offtake of about 25,000 tonnes per year of lithium from the miner’s Kachi project in Argentina, it said on Monday April 11.
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Both spot and contract prices for iodine continued to increase in late March–early April, driven by lively demand for X-ray contrast media and – to a lesser extent – for potassium iodide tablets for human consumption.
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Key data from the graphite pricing sessions in Asia and Europe for the week ended Thursday April 7.
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Michael Carvill, managing director of titanium minerals and zircon producer Kenmare Resources, shares his views on the future of mineral sands markets and how they and the company fit into a low-carbon economy.
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South Star Battery Metals has signed a $28-million streaming agreement for graphite concentrate to move its Santa Cruz project in Brazil into operation in the second quarter of 2023, the company said, April 5.
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Barite prices increased in March as the energy crisis worsened, with rising fuel costs affecting business operations.
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GreenRoc Mining is seeking to monetize the location and quality of its Greenland graphite project as quickly as possible to meet predicted demand for battery anode, Kirk Adams, the company’s chief executive officer, told Fastmarkets.
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Lithium producers Mineral Resources and Albemarle will speed up the resumption of spodumene production at the Wodgina site in Australia, which the two companies own as part of the MARLB joint venture, they announced on Tuesday April 5.
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International mineral sands company Iluka has received board approval for the third phase of its Eneabba rare earths refinery project, the company said on Monday April 4.
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