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Magnesia Market Review: coming out the other side stronger
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, [...]
Oilfield minerals market outlook & 2022 review
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 [...]
Let IMFORMED bring the mineral markets together for you in 2023
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 [...]
In Memoriam: David Holmes | David Delamore | Malcolm Crawford
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 [...]
“Recycling is coming”: mineral industry gears up for supply chain evolution
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 [...]
China refractory minerals outlook in transition
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 [...]