Industrial Minerals

Silica sand

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PRICING NOTICE: Discontinuation of silica sand, feldspar prices

Tuesday, 05 February 2019

Fastmarkets will discontinue its feldspar and silica sand prices, while it expands the sand price offering on existing core markets.
PRICING NOTICE: Discontinuation of four industrial mineral price assessments; extended consultation on two assessments; suspension of one assessment

Friday, 18 January 2019

Fastmarkets is discontinuing price assessments in four markets, extending the consultation period on two more and suspending one assessment, following a consultation process with the market.
MEIS 2018: GCC countries turn to protectionism to defend steel industry against Section 232

Tuesday, 18 December 2018

Speakers at Fastmarkets MB’s Middle East Iron and Steel event stressed the urgency of shielding local steelmakers from the knock-on effects of the United States’ Section 232 tariffs although over the longer term GCC industries must find ways to become more competitive.
PRICING NOTICE: Proposal to discontinue prices in seven minerals markets

Friday, 30 November 2018

Fastmarkets IM is opening a market consultation to seek feedback on its proposal to discontinue a range of prices across seven different markets.

PRICING NOTICE: Discontinuation of silica sand, feldspar prices

Tuesday, 05 February 2019

Fastmarkets will discontinue its feldspar and silica sand prices, while it expands the sand price offering on existing core markets.
PRICING NOTICE: Proposal to discontinue prices in seven minerals markets

Friday, 30 November 2018

Fastmarkets IM is opening a market consultation to seek feedback on its proposal to discontinue a range of prices across seven different markets.
IM's February Price Movements

Tuesday, 27 February 2018

IM's monthly price movements.
Letter from the editor: pricing review

Wednesday, 31 January 2018

As we enter into a new year, I wanted to update you on some of the changes and significant developments the global Industrial Minerals team is working on to ensure that the market information and prices that we provide you with are of the utmost relevance to your business.

Building on silica sand: Vietnam’s glass industry

Thursday, 31 January 2019

Vietnam has ambitions to become one of Asia’s biggest glass exporters. Tran Kim Phuong looks at how the country is trying to achieve this by exploiting its high quality domestic silica sand reserves.
On the way up: Industrial minerals in India

Thursday, 22 February 2018

India has recorded economic growth of around 7% per year in the past three years. But while it has significant resources of some of the most widely used industrial minerals, this sector has shown only modest growth, as Industrial Minerals correspondent Sunder Singh discovers.
US exiting Paris Treaty not expected to impact minerals sector

Friday, 07 July 2017

In the wake of President Trump’s announcement that the US will be pulling out of the 2015 Paris Climate Treaty, IM looks at the significance of this move and the possible impact this will have on the industrial minerals market. By Mark Rowe
Cracking under pressure? Glass markets in Europe

Thursday, 27 April 2017

The global economic downturn and the subsequent lull in construction has taken its toll on the global float glass market. Now however, as Sarah Gibbons and Liz Newmark discover, the industry is looking to a brighter future - despite there still being challenges for producers and the raw material markets which supply them.