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Industrial Minerals Back to Basics: What? Why? How?

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 [...]

By |Friday, 7 July, 2023|Categories: Newsfile|2 Comments

Industrial Minerals Review 2022-23: Getting greener | Sourcing smarter

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 [...]

By |Friday, 7 July, 2023|Categories: Newsfile|Comments Off on Industrial Minerals Review 2022-23: Getting greener | Sourcing smarter

Dusseldorf Daze! GIFA-METEC 2023

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 [...]

By |Monday, 19 June, 2023|Categories: Newsfile|Comments Off on Dusseldorf Daze! GIFA-METEC 2023

Fluorspar new sources go underground for the battery charge

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 [...]

By |Thursday, 25 May, 2023|Categories: Newsfile|Comments Off on Fluorspar new sources go underground for the battery charge

Mineral recycling radiates in Dubrovnik | Mineral Recycling Forum 2023 Review

Industrial Minerals | Refractories | Li-ion Batteries | Construction Materials | Fertiliser | LIBS Springtime in Dubrovnik? It must be time for IMFORMED’s Mineral Recycling Forum 2023! And indeed it was, with close to 100 [...]

By |Thursday, 18 May, 2023|Categories: Newsfile|Comments Off on Mineral recycling radiates in Dubrovnik | Mineral Recycling Forum 2023 Review

Challenge & change in the world of speciality aluminas – the view from Almatis

IMFORMED interviews Anıl Sönmez, Chief Executive Officer, Almatis Almatis is the market leader in speciality alumina products and solutions for the high performance refractory, ceramic, polishing and speciality markets. In April 2023, IMFORMED interviewed Almatis [...]

By |Tuesday, 25 April, 2023|Categories: Newsfile|Comments Off on Challenge & change in the world of speciality aluminas – the view from Almatis