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December 2009
23 December 2009
China leads across the board recovery in crude steel production in November
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21 December 2009
China’s refractory production and refractory mineral exports plummeted in 2009
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12 December 2009
IM talks with Bill Moore, founder of EVWorld.com, on how electric vehicles could shape the next ten years
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12 December 2009
Auto battery development sees increased mineral and chemical opportunities
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12 December 2009
Simbol Mining increases acquisition activity as it nears a lithium geothermal brine extraction breakthrough which could eliminate the need for solar evaporation
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12 December 2009
Keliber Oy explains how its green process has given it a footing to become Europe’s first producer of lithium carbonate
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12 December 2009
While future lithium markets appear promising, Lara Smith outlines why suppliers should be treading carefully
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12 December 2009
How significant upstream and market developments have shaped 2009 into one of the most significant years yet for lithium
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12 December 2009
Dolomite, fluorspar and lime flux producers breathe a sigh of relief as an upswing begins in the aluminium and steel market cycles
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12 December 2009
Brazil leads the South American economies out of recession, with particular focus on developing its fertiliser minerals market and rejuvenating mineral exploitation with a new Mining Law for 2011
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12 December 2009
Coal-fired power plant demise threatens FGD minerals future
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12 December 2009
Supply disruption, price rises, and export licence speculation in China feed anxiety for early 2010
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12 December 2009
Closure of Exelon Philadelphia power units in 2011 marks end of magnesia use in FGD and hits 13.5% of US caustic calcined magnesia demand
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08 December 2009
Closure of Exelon Philadelphia power units in 2011 marks end of magnesia use in FGD
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03 December 2009
Shinagawa and Krosaki incur H1 losses as steel demand recovers but a rebound in the refractories industry is far from certain
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02 December 2009
Beacon Hill magnesite development continues with mining lease application
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01 December 2009
Renewed refractories and bricks contracts with Shandong Iron & Steel worth $9m.
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November 2009
30 November 2009
Editor's Comment: Chinese power price rises to impact minerals
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27 November 2009
Prices are expected to increase from January on constrained Chinese supply
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27 November 2009
China’s aim to cut CO2 emissions by 40-45% provides boost to “green minerals”
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25 November 2009
Chinese refractories producer renews three steel furnace contracts worth $7.3m.
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22 November 2009
ACC Resources trades raw material in North and South America for the refractory and foundry industries. Gerardo Cortina, president, discussed with IM the challenge to find alternative sources to China in this changing environment
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22 November 2009
Summary of industrial mineral prices listed in monthly IM issue
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22 November 2009
Belgium’s Lhoist Group explains how increasing industrial development and environmental regulation is opening new opportunities for wastewater treatment products such as its new Neutralac® SLS45
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22 November 2009
The drying up of credit lines and an uncertain short term future has resulted in a buyers strike for phosphate. After production and price cuts, all suppliers of the fertiliser mineral can do now is play the waiting game
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22 November 2009
A decade of industrial minerals: the turning of China, the rise of Imerys, a trading evolution, and refractory market consolidation – IM revisits some of the key events that have defined the decade
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22 November 2009
Non-metallurgical refractories – cement, glass, ceramics, monolithics, and petrochemicals – have been heavily impacted by the economic crisis. In the short term, signs of recovery are shy while new niche opportunities
offer longer term optimism
by Alexandra Feytis, Assistant Editor
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20 November 2009
Global crude steel output rises year on year driven 42% increase in China
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12 November 2009
Bauxite and diatomite prices on the increase while dead burned magnesite is steady
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11 November 2009
A quiet dead burned magnesite market awaits outcome of contract negotiations
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11 November 2009
Ministry believed to be planning new strategy to control industrial mineral exports