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Rio Tinto halts South African Ti-slag production, Quebec output under threat

Tuesday, 24 March 2020

Rio Tinto has closed its mineral sands and titanium slag operation at Richards Bay Minerals in South Africa, after the country’s government issued an order intended to contain the spread of the 2019-nCoV coronavirus pandemic.
Covid-19: A message from Fastmarkets CEO Raju Daswani

Monday, 23 March 2020

Fastmarkets will continue to provide the price data, news and analytics you rely on in these turbulent times.
Mineral sands markets slow but stable moving into March

Thursday, 05 March 2020

Mineral sands trading activity is looking slow but prices appear to have stabilized heading into the last month of the quarter, in line with market expectations in February.
Image resumes HMC shipments after coronavirus hit demand

Tuesday, 03 March 2020

Image Resources has resumed the sale of heavy mineral concentrate from its Boonanarring mine in Western Australia, after demand was stalled by the coronavirus (2019-nCoV) shutdown.

Mineral sands markets braced for slowdown after China virus outbreak

Friday, 07 February 2020

Business activity in the mineral sands markets was seen to be idling in the week to Friday February 7, with worries about the fallout from the coronavirus outbreak in China leading to a cautious outlook, as Declan Conway reports.
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.
PRICING NOTICE: Delayed publication of mineral sands price assessments

Friday, 15 November 2019

The publication of Fastmarkets’ weekly mineral sands assessment prices for November 14 was delayed due to a reporter error.

INTERVIEW: ‘I am going to transform our company’ - Severstal CEO

Friday, 03 January 2020

Alexander Shevelev, CEO of Russian steelmaker Severstal, says that the company has changed its culture quite quickly and substantially to focus on being a solutions provider. Richard Barrett asked him to explain that mission and to recall his path from the shop floor to the top of a company that employs 50,000 people
Steel market woes are weighing on refractories

Friday, 03 January 2020

Pressure is continuing to mount on the refractories sector while its main market – the steel industry – suffers from overcapacity, trade tensions and emissions reduction targets, Rose Pengelly finds.
Indian mining: Stuck in the slow lane

Friday, 01 November 2019

Frustration at the lack of progress in India’s mining sector was simmering at the annual FIMI meeting in Delhi in September. Sunder Singh discovers how many in the industry believe that, far from advancing, mineral production in India is going backwards.
VV Minerals boss says canalisation will hurt mineral sand miners

Tuesday, 26 February 2019

The chief executive of VV Minerals tells Fastmarkets that restrictions on private exports of mineral sands will be bad for production.