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January 2021
22 January 2021
The increase in Chinese lithium spot carbonate prices is expected to support a recovery across the whole lithium complex, Fastmarkets' William Adams said.
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22 January 2021
Seaborne prices for bauxite and fused alumina in China moved up in the fortnight ended Thursday January 21 on rising land transport costs and long lead times, compounded by persistently tight supply.
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22 January 2021
Tightness in the Chinese domestic battery grade lithium compound market drove further price upswings and supported a similar move up in the Asian seaborne lithium carbonate market in the week to Thursday January 21.
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22 January 2021
A summary of China’s battery raw materials exports for December 2020.
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22 January 2021
A summary of China’s battery raw materials imports for December 2020.
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22 January 2021
As many as one-third of the current global portfolio of tailings storage facilities (TSFs) are impaired and in need of urgent intervention, according to the Switzerland-based Responsible Mining Foundation (RMF).
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21 January 2021
Mineral Commodities (MRC) has won permission to expand its graphite prospects in Norway while it advances its downstream developments.
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21 January 2021
Key data from the graphite pricing sessions in Asia and Europe
for the week ended Thursday January 21.
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21 January 2021
A summary of Australia-based graphite miner Syrah Resources’ financial results for the fourth quarter of 2020, released on Thursday January 21.
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21 January 2021
A court battle between Cosayach and its former North American distributor that stretches back to July last year looks a long way from resolution after the US lawyers of the leading Chilean iodine producer refused the civil citation informing the company it was being sued.
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20 January 2021
Lithium carbonate has been produced for the first time in Cornwall in southwest England, the Li4UK consortium said this week.
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20 January 2021
Lithium miner Pilbara Minerals has completed the acquisition of Altura Lithium, it said on Wednesday January 20.
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20 January 2021
China’s overall magnesia market was slow over the week to Tuesday January 19 with prices unchanged amid poor end-user demand, while producers started to lower offer prices for some grades of magnesia, sources said.
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20 January 2021
Fastmarkets’ assessment price for wet bulk foundry grade chromite moved up after five months of stability amid improving market sentiment in the week to Tuesday January 19, while the chemical grade market also gained against the end of last year.
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20 January 2021
Rio Tinto reported lower titanium dioxide production in 2020, due to Covid restricitons, lower market demand, and operational disruptions.
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20 January 2021
Xia Juncheng has become the chief executive officer of Chinese lithium producer Tianqi with effect from Saturday January 16, according to a filing to the Shenzhen Stock Exchange.
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20 January 2021
The London Metal Exchange is proposing the permanent closure of its open-outcry trading floor and the incentivization of greater liquidity on its electronic trading platform, LMESelect.
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19 January 2021
Sales of passenger cars in the European Union dropped by 3.27% year on year in December 2020, the European Automotive Manufacturers Association (ACEA) said on Tuesday January 19.
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19 January 2021
China’s crude steel output in 2020 exceeded 1 billion tonnes for the first time with an increase of 5.2%, according to data released by the country’s National Bureau of Statistics on Monday January 18.
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18 January 2021
The key producer of chromium salts in China, Hubei Zhenhua Chemical, has completed its purchase of Chongqing Minfeng Chemical, it announced on Monday January 18.
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18 January 2021
Tronox’s plan to purchase the TTI titanium slag smelter in Norway from Eramet has fallen through after opposition from the UK antitrust regulator.
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18 January 2021
US-based junior miner Lithium Americas received the Record of Decision from the United States Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for its Thacker Pass project in Nevada on Friday January 15.
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18 January 2021
Fluorspar acidspar export prices remained stable in China last week amid weak demand. China’s domestic fluorspar transport has been partly disrupted in north China due to increased Covid-19 cases in Hebei province.
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15 January 2021
Turkey’s biggest steel producer, Erdemir, has bought compatriot magnesia producer Kümas, with the sale approved by the Turkish Competition Authority, the steelmaker said on Friday January 15.
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15 January 2021
Rio Tinto is to become the first producer of high-quality scandium oxide in North America and will produce around one-fifth of the current level of world supply from a planned plant in Québec, Canada.
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15 January 2021
China’s domestic battery-grade lithium carbonate prices rose by 5.6% to a 14-month high on Thursday January 14, 2021 on tightening spot supply while battery-grade lithium hydroxide also surged by 10.3% week on week on low availability of cheap materials, Fastmarkets heard.
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15 January 2021
South Africa’s chrome and manganese producers are facing competition with each other to secure trucking capacity amid Covid-19-related logistical disruptions and an impending rail shutdown, sources told Fastmarkets on Thursday January 14.
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15 January 2021
China’s steel imports increased sharply in 2020 but exports declined from 2019 levels, according to Chinese customs data released on Thursday January 14.
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14 January 2021
The Covid-19 pandemic is once again disrupting logistics in China, with authorities reporting the first death in the country since the spring of 2020.
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14 January 2021
Key data from the graphite pricing sessions in Asia and Europe for the week ended Thursday January 14.
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14 January 2021
South African andalusite miner Andalusite Resources will be taken over by a local mining consortium, paving the way for the company to exit business rescue status and secure its position as a supplier of the mineral, Fastmarkets has learned.
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14 January 2021
Prices of antimony trioxide in Europe and the United States continued their upward trend in the seven days to Tuesday January 12 due to tight availability of feedstock antimony metal as well as soaring freight costs.
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14 January 2021
German carmaker Volkswagen Group delivered 212,000 electric cars in 2020, a 158% increase from a year earlier and a record high for the company despite a challenging market environment and an overall drop in sales due to the economic fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic, it said on Tuesday January 12.
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14 January 2021
Sentiment in the chromite market appeared to be firming with market participants on the sell side suggesting during the latest pricing session that there are signals of improved conditions in the short term.
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14 January 2021
The European flourspar contract market dipped in December 2020 after a turbulent year for end consumer markets due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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14 January 2021
Chinese automotive output and sales dipped by just 2% in 2020 from a year earlier after a sustained recovery in the second half of the year. Continuous year-on-year growth in December in both sales and output continued to provide support to upstream raw material prices.
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13 January 2021
United States-based minerals producer Westwater Resources has turned its focus to graphite from uranium in order to capitalize on expected growth in the battery-grade sector and to join expansion in the spherical graphite market.
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13 January 2021
Portuguese oil and gas company Galp will increase its new-energy portfolio with a 10% stake in Savannah Resources’ lithium mine in the country.
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13 January 2021
Mineral sand miner Kenmare has forecast increases in output in 2021 after upgrading its facilities at Moma, Mozambique.
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13 January 2021
Fastmarkets proposes to reduce the frequency of two of its amorphous graphite price assessments to monthly from weekly.
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12 January 2021
China Southern Rare Earths, a major state-owned producer, has announced price rises for key heavy rare-earth magnet elements.
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12 January 2021
ArcelorMittal has restarted one of its sinter plants at Gijon in Spain's Asturias region after nine months of downtime.
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12 January 2021
China’s exports of brown (BFA) and white fused alumina (WFA) rose year on year in November on recovering demand from overseas buyers, while refractory grade bauxite exports dropped over the same period.
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12 January 2021
US-based junior miner Lithium Americas expects the final step in the permitting process for its Thacker Pass project in Nevada to be released on January 15 by the United States Bureau of Land Management (BLM), a company representative told Fastmarkets.
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11 January 2021
US-based lithium producer Albemarle Corp has submitted additional information on its lithium reserves to the Chilean Nuclear Agency (CCHEN) following a formal request on Monday January 4.
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11 January 2021
China’s fluorspar acidspar export market was flat in the first full trading week of 2021, with downstream buying exhibiting no recovery after the New Year break.
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08 January 2021
China’s domestic battery-grade lithium carbonate market hit a 14-month high in the first trading week of the year after the price rose by 8% week on week on Thursday January 7 on soaring offer prices and heightened buying appetite.
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08 January 2021
Refractory raw material consumers are likely to face shortages in bauxite, with the continued supply and logistics bottlenecks from China coming against a low-stock situation in destination markets.
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07 January 2021
The antimony market had a volatile year in 2020 but was buoyed by ongoing trade flow disruptions and ore tightness in China that should continue to support prices in early 2021.
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07 January 2021
US-headquartered lithium producer Albemarle Corp will double lithium carbonate output at its brine-sourced production facility, Silver Peak, based in Nevada, it said on Thursday January 7.
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07 January 2021
Key data from the graphite pricing sessions in Asia and Europe for the week ended Thursday January 7.
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06 January 2021
A summary of Australian spodumene concentrate miner Pilbara Minerals‘ results for the fourth quarter of 2020, released on Wednesday January 6.
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06 January 2021
China’s magnesia export market has remained quiet, with few new deals reported this week because most market participants were just back from New Year holidays, although market sentiment remained upbeat due to tight supply.
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05 January 2021
The UK Competition and Market Authority will conduct a further investigation on the potential effect of Tronox’s purchase of the TiZir titanium feedstock business from Eramet, the two companies said on Monday January 4.
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05 January 2021
China, which is finalizing a new masterplan that will form the core of its policies for the ferrous sector in its 14th Five-Year Plan, is seeking input from steel market participants, its Ministry of Industry & Information Technology (MIIT) said on December 31.
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05 January 2021
China's finance ministry has reduced the subsidies for electric vehicles (EVs) for 2021 by 20%, a move most market participants say they had expected.
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04 January 2021
Delivery and sales from leading US-based electric vehicles (EVs) manufacturer Tesla showed strong growth over the course of 2020 despite the economic setbacks and logistic disruptions triggered by the global spread of Covid-19 and its economic consequences, according to data released by the company on Saturday January 2.
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04 January 2021
Exports of dead burned magnesia (DBM) rose in November year on year due to increasing demand from overseas buyers, while caustic calcined magnesia (CCM) and fused magnesia (FM) exports declined.
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04 January 2021
View the Fastmarkets holiday pricing schedule for 2021 and 2022.
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04 January 2021
Sustainable mining of lithium - a critical raw material in the manufacturing of lithium-ion batteries that also plays a pivotal role in vehicle electrification - has come under increased scrutiny over the past year amid an accelerated shift toward electric vehicles (EVs).