IMFORMED’s largest event to date for the global fluorine raw materials market last week saw 200 attendees network and listen to a packed programme of expert speakers at Fluorine Forum 2023, at the Pullman Cannes Mandelieu, 16-18 October. Topics included fluorspar market overview, shipping and logistics, China, Mongolia, potential new sources from Australia, Germany, Italy, [...]
Raw material producer and trader to the foundry and steel industry Metall-und Ferrolegierungsgesellschaft mbH Hafner, Blondin &Tidou (MFG), based in Meerbusch, Germany, has diversified into supplying chromite and refractory raw materials by launching a new subsidiary, MFG Materia GmbH based in its new location Lübeck, near Hamburg, Germany. Title Image Conveying Chromite: Bauba Resources’ Moeijelijk [...]
Big thanks to the UNITECR 2023 organisers for putting on a terrific show last week. It was fabulous to meet our customers, contacts, & make new friends from the refractories world. IMFORMED thanks all those who stopped by our stand, attended the recycling panel, and Mike O’Driscoll’s presentation “Squaring the Circle: Recycling Refractory Minerals – [...]
CALL FOR PAPERS | SPONSORSHIP & EXHIBIT OPPORTUNITIES XII European Congress of Refractory Raw Materials, Machinery & Installation Meliá Lebreros, Seville, 13-14 March 2024 Co-organised by ANFRE, Spain (National Association of Manufacturers of Refractories, Materials and Related Services) and IMFORMED, this will be a stimulating conference focusing on key aspects of the refractory raw [...]
Review of MagForum 2023, Baveno, Italy The shores of beautiful Lake Maggiore at Baveno hosted the largest and most successful MagForum to date. Some 230 international attendees from across the supply chain of the magnesia raw materials industry gathered in late May to network and learn of the latest market trends and developments. Certainly, there [...]
It is with great sadness that we report the recent passing of our great friend, mentor, and worldly industrial mineral geologist Dr Ian Wilson in mid-June 2023, just weeks away from his 80th birthday. Without a doubt, Ian was one of the legendary geologists and communicators of the industrial minerals world and made long-lasting friendships [...]
Workshop at 2023 AGM of Benchmark Mineral Intelligence Sometimes you’ve just gotta get back to basics to properly understand the principles of the industrial minerals business and how it functions. IMFORMED was offered the opportunity to do just this by kind invitation to run a workshop at the 2023 Annual General Meeting of Benchmark Mineral [...]
My introduction to last year's IM Annual Review of Mining Engineering concluded with a pointer to the challenges facing the industrial minerals sector in developing and employing carbon emissions reduction, energy conservation, and recycling practices for a sustainable future (see Industrial Minerals Review 2021-22: Testing times sustain market turmoil, but outlook positive). Throw in further critical raw material [...]
A hot, intense, but fabulous time last week networking at GIFA-METEC 2023, catching up with our many clients and contacts, and making new friends in the industrial minerals, refractory, foundry, metallurgy, & trading markets. We were especially pleased to meet so many Chinese contacts who were able to travel for the first time since the pandemic lockdown [...]
Projects in Mongolia & Germany | Updates from USA, Canada, Italy, Kenya, Australia World fluorspar production capacity remains tight, with few, if any, new production capacities ready to come on-stream any time soon. However, there are some very interesting projects in the pipeline. Title Image Feeling their way underground: (left) Examining fluorite veins at KHD [...]
