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Market Monitor: US “critical” industry list | SA mine shutdown | Refractories | Steel | Foundry | Cement | Glass | Oilfield Magnesite extraction at Haicheng City Zhongzhao Magnesite Co. Ltd’s Wangjiapu mine, Haicheng, Liaoning, China; traditionally a major exporter, but as China resumes operations, its markets in the West are in lockdown. [...]

Review of Mineral Recycling Forum 2020, Aachen Last week’s IMFORMED Mineral Recycling Forum 2020 in Aachen, Germany squeaked in under the wire before the EU lockdown response to the Covid-19 virus outbreak. With sensible precautionary measures in place and a communal enthusiasm to look out for one another while actively participating in the conference, some [...]

COVID-19 impact continues as mineral consumers ponder future supply mind set Hand sorting high grade magnesite from the underground mine of Haicheng Haiming Mining Co. Ltd, one of Liaoning's newest state-of-the-art producers of CCM, DBM and FM. It’s happened a few times before: during the SARS outbreak of 2003, the Beijing Olympics of [...]

Ensuring the health & safety of our attendees, exhibitors, partners, & staff is our top priority POSTPONED TO 2021: IMFORMED RENDEZVOUS | MAGFORUM | OILFIELD MINERALS FORUM | CHINA REFRACTORY MINERALS FORUM | FLUORINE FORUM (HANOI) FLUORINE FORUM 2020 REVISED PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES FOR FORUMS IMFORMED is diligently monitoring the situation, assimilating advice from relevant authorities, and [...]

Refra buys QMAG to boost captive magnesia supply & eyes non-refractory markets QMAG's plant at Parkhurst, near Rockhampton has a combined production capacity of >300,000 tpa of high grade fused (FM), dead burned (DBM), and caustic calcined (CCM) magnesia. Courtesy QMAG The long awaited outcome of Sibelco’s sale of Queensland Magnesia Pty Ltd [...]

Port of Amsterdam is Lead Sponsor for IMFORMED Rendezvous 2021 IMFORMED is delighted to announce Port of Amsterdam as Lead Sponsor to our IMFORMED Rendezvous “Vision for Industrial Minerals”, Noordwijk-Amsterdam, 12-14 April 2021 - full details here (Note: this Forum was postponed from 6-8 April 2020). One of the primary gateways to Europe’s markets, Amsterdam has a substantial industrial [...]

The Vision for Industrial Minerals IMFORMED is delighted to announce its programme for the IMFORMED Rendezvous “The Vision for Industrial Minerals”, at Noordwijk (Amsterdam), 12-14 April 2021 (Full details here).  Note: This Forum was postponed from 6-8 April 2020. We intend to retain as much as possible the original excellent programme of speakers for IMFORMED Rendezvous, 12-14 [...]

FINAL WEEK EARLY BIRD RATE SAVING US$500 Latest confirmed speakers ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS | MINERAL SUPPLY OPPORTUNITIES  The strive towards the Circular Economy has boosted the evolution of recycling industrial waste. In turn, this has increased the potential of recycling industrial minerals from certain waste streams as technical and economic challenges in their sourcing, processing, cost, and [...]

…you served the industry well First issue out! October 1967: (left to right) Peter Rowbotham, first Editor, IM; Mike Cordero, Production Manager; Peter Church, Circulation Manager; Brian Orbell, Advertisement Manager. The end of an era for those in the mineral media world. The October-November 2019 issue of Industrial Minerals magazine marked its final [...]