Mineral supply chain and market competition awareness urged One of industrial minerals’ key consuming markets, refractories, is expected to undergo a period of slow growth for the next few years, meaning at least steady, if not reduced, demand for refractory minerals. RHI AG's Weissenstein magnesite mine, Austria, supplies feedstock for dead burned magnesia used [...]
IMFORMED announces H1 2016 conferences Recycling | Logistics | Magnesia | Oilfield IMFORMED is delighted to announce confirmed dates and venues for the first half of 2016. In response to this year’s success of our inaugural Mineral Logistics and Oilfield Minerals & Markets Forums, we shall be running these again in 2016. As well as fresh [...]
Graphite users are closely monitoring the emergence of the new generation battery market as its market share grows. The evolution of Li-ion batteries and their growing application in electric vehicles, utility storage facilities, and consumer-led electronic devices has led to this market to taking a major share of world flake graphite supply, and now vies [...]
LWP/Ashapura fly ash proppants JV: a future supply for the Middle East? Described as a “quantum leap” for LWP Technologies Ltd, the Australian ceramic proppant developer has just announced a joint venture with Indian ceramic proppant producer Hallmark Minerals (I) Pvt Ltd. The JV agreement calls for LWP’s recently developed proppant manufacturing technology to be utilised [...]
Precursor to GIFA/METEC sets scene for foundry market week Chromite | Bentonite | Carbon | Andalusite | Cenospheres | Zircon | Dunite | Silica sand | Mullite | Bauxite Main picture: Pasek Minerales’ dunite mine in Cabo Ortegal, Galicia; the company is looking to blend calcined dunite with bentonite and silica sand for foundry [...]
IMFORMED conference abuzz with discussion and networking Barytes | Barite | Bentonite | Hectorite | Garnet | Frac sand | Ceramic proppants | Shipping | Grinding | Drying | Handling | India | China | Argentina Main picture: Baramin's La Huiche mine, Mexico (Courtesy Mario Trevino); Inset top: Al Wilson, President, Cimbar tests the [...]
Atlantic Congress Hotel, Essen, Monday 15 June 2015 Chromite | Zircon | Graphite | Andalusite | Mullite | Bentonite | Silica sand | Dunite | Cenospheres IMFORMED’s 1-day conference for the foundry mineral business is of high interest to all those active in the supply and use of industrial minerals used in metal casting. Topics include [...]
Refractories and chemicals show bright spots The overall situation for non-metallurgical chromite supply is one of weak demand and oversupply, particularly for foundry grade, although there are some signs of improvement in refractory and chemical markets. World chromite production declined slightly in 2014 over the previous year, but South African output increased markedly, including activity [...]
Garuda starts new barytes processing plant India’s tender for sale of crude barytes ore concluded earlier this week, with a total of 400,000 tonnes of barytes sold by the country’s dominant producer, state government-owned Andhra Pradesh Mineral Development Corp. Ltd (APMDC). The tender is normally conducted once every three years, and was due in 2014, [...]
Timing good as Iluka winds down US operations Southern Ionics Minerals LLC has formally opened its new Mineral Sands Plant (MSP) in Offerman, Pierce county, Georgia, with zircon and titanium minerals production scheduled to start in June 2015. Invesment casting is one of the main targets for the new zircon source. Southern Ionics is exploiting the [...]
