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February 2018
27 February 2018
Iluka Resources will raise prices for its zircon and rutile products, amid strong demand, weakened supply and what it says is a “trend towards high grade feedstocks and chloride feedstocks across the board.”
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27 February 2018
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26 February 2018
A drop in sales, due to the timing of shipments, was more than offset by increasing mineral sand prices.
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26 February 2018
The Australian miner will now seek to secure off-take agreements for a planned 240,000 tonnes per year of production.
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23 February 2018
The speciality ink pigment capacity lost in a plant fire should be fully restored by the end of 2018, although commodity pigment capacity will take longer to repair.
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22 February 2018
Coatings makers are raising their product prices to offset higher TiO2 prices in 2017.
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20 February 2018
The company plans to triple its chloride route production by next year via an expansion at its Jiazuo site in China.
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19 February 2018
Industry groups and India’s ministry of steel have called for royalty rates to be lowered.
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15 February 2018
The South African rand approached a three-year high against the US dollar on Thursday February 15 following the resignation of President Jacob Zuma on Wednesday, after nine years in charge.
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15 February 2018
US producer forecasts higher earnings in 2018, even as it notes increased feedstock costs.
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15 February 2018
Sheffield progresses Thunderbird project; Strandline more than doubles mineral sand resource; Bluejay raises £17 mln to fastrack Dundas ilmenite project
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15 February 2018
Ilmenite prices are expected to continue rising in China after the lunar new year celebrations.
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07 February 2018
Ukrainian producer UMCC reports an 18.7% rise in ilmenite production, in addition to a 20% increase in sales for its mineral sand products.
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06 February 2018
The South African mining sector must strive to build a competitive, transformed and sustainable industry, the chairperson of the Council for Geoscience said at Mining Indaba in Cape Town this week.
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06 February 2018
Pigment buyers are cutting costs and increasing end prices while they warn of further raw material price inflation to come.
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02 February 2018
Industrial Minerals has today discontinued five grades of zircon.
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02 February 2018
Solid inventories have limited producers' ability to push up titanium dioxide prices in the first quarter of 2018.