Industrial Minerals

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PRICING NOTICE: Holiday pricing schedule for 2021-2022

Monday, 04 January 2021

View the Fastmarkets holiday pricing schedule for 2021 and 2022.
PRICING NOTICE: Holiday pricing schedule for 2020-2021

Monday, 03 February 2020

View the Fastmarkets holiday pricing schedule for 2020 and 2021.
Digitalization of global trade gets major push

Monday, 27 January 2020

The digitalization of global trade received another push this week, with the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the government of Singapore and industry participants signing an agreement to facilitate and accelerate the adoption of technologies in commerce at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
PRICING NOTICE: Fastmarkets moves to annual methodology reviews across PRA divisions

Tuesday, 21 January 2020

Beginning in 2020, Fastmarkets will review its pricing methodologies and price specifications across all its Price Reporting Agency (PRA) divisions - Metals & Mining and Forest Products - on an annual basis rather than twice per year.

PRICING NOTICE: Holiday pricing schedule for 2020-2021

Monday, 03 February 2020

View the Fastmarkets holiday pricing schedule for 2020 and 2021.
PRICING NOTICE: Fastmarkets moves to annual methodology reviews across PRA divisions

Tuesday, 21 January 2020

Beginning in 2020, Fastmarkets will review its pricing methodologies and price specifications across all its Price Reporting Agency (PRA) divisions - Metals & Mining and Forest Products - on an annual basis rather than twice per year.
Price Briefing March 23 - April 5

Friday, 06 April 2018

Tightening supply gives zircon, rutile prices a boost as Q2 gets underway; PRICING NOTICE: Discontinuation of wollastonite prices; Chinese lithium market remains slow but prices rise globally; Low-grade magnesia prices fall while stocks rise; Foundry chromite prices strengthen; chemical grade stable; PRICING NOTICE: Discontinuation of sulphur prices
PRICING NOTICE: Discontinuation of sulphur prices

Thursday, 05 April 2018

Industrial Minerals has discontinued prices for two grades of sulphur.

Quirk boasts Freeport's culture, innovation, AI, embrace of agile way of working

Thursday, 18 November 2021

Kathleen Quirk, the president and chief financial officer of US copper producer Freeport-McMoRan, stresses teamwork and the strength of her colleagues in discussing her career with Andrea Hotter.
The peaks and troughs of Eurasian mining

Wednesday, 01 May 2019

Turkey is the standout performer in Eurasia’s industrial minerals industry but its economic recession is affecting the wider region. Rose Pengelly looks at what neighboring countries are doing to boost their domestic mining sectors.
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.
Growth markets for new fertilisers

Friday, 27 February 2015

As a raft of new sulphur deficiency-addressing fertilisers hit the international market, James Sean Dickson, Reporter, examines the reasons for their emergence, and the future of the specialist crop nutrient industry.