It was great to be back at the SME Annual Conference & “MINEXCHANGE” Expo in Denver after a five-year absence, catching up with friends, making new contacts, and taking the pulse of the North American minerals industry. From 26 February to 1 March 2023 >6,500 attendees participated in >120 technical sessions and visited MINEXCHANGE 2023, [...]
OUT NOW! IMFORMED’s unique Mineral Market Matrix® Wall Chart At a glance guide: which minerals for which markets New edition March 2023 Active in the industrial minerals supply chain? Whether exploring, financing, mining, processing, trading, distributing, transporting, developing, buying or using industrial minerals the Mineral Market Matrix® will be an invaluable reference tool. One of the key features [...]
Seen & Heard at MagForum 2022 Noordwijk Last year the magnesia industry brushed off the pandemic blues by gathering for a glorious few days at Noordwijk on the Dutch coast to attend IMFORMED’s MagForum 2022, 7-9 June 2022. And what a few days it was! Outstanding networking after so many Zoom meetings, and an excellent [...]
Barite | Bauxite | Frac sand | Leonardite | Logistics | Sourcing | China | Morocco | Mexico The New Year rise of oil prices should come as some reassurance to suppliers of industrial minerals to the oilfield market, having faced headwinds and depressing news over the last three years or so. But there are mixed [...]
As IMFORMED nears its eighth anniversary, Mike and Ismene would like to thank all our customers, sponsors, friends, and families for their unstinting support during 2022. The last three years has been challenging, particularly 2020-21, and 2022 should perhaps be marked as a year in transition: the world cautiously exited pandemic lockdowns and returned to travel and [...]
It is with great sadness that we report on the passing of three friends and colleagues from the industrial minerals world. Each were stalwarts of the industrial minerals business, widely respected and recognised for their individual areas of expertise, fondly remembered for their contributions and participation at industry events, and above all for their friendship [...]
Mineral Recycling Forum 2022 Dubrovnik Review | 2023? same place, same time! If we were to talk about high drama in Dubrovnik, you would be forgiven for immediately thinking of the successful medieval fantasy TV drama series Game of Thrones, much of which was filmed in and around the beautiful old town of Dubrovnik. However, [...]
As we head towards the final quarter of 2022 and look towards 2023 and beyond, the international refractory industry is readying itself for a busy period of important international refractory meetings (ICR, Aachen; ALAFAR, Foz do Iguaçu; IREFCON, Kolkata). Kicking off the season was IMFORMED’s China Refractory Minerals Forum 2022 ONLINE held on 14 September [...]
Since its restructuring and new management announced in January 2021, we have been reporting on the evolution of Essen-based global mineral distributor Cofermin Group. In this latest follow-up article we focus on the management and role of Cofermin’s chromite division, Cofermin Chrome, established in 2015. Title Image Chromite Horizons: One of South Africa’s leading sources [...]
New sources of salt are being developed to meet the rising demand for salt worldwide. Some 330m tonnes of salt is consumed globally, with the primary markets being the chloralkali and deicing sectors. The Asia-Pacific region is seeing significant market demand growth estimated at 35% over the next decade. However, the region has been beset by [...]
