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Industrial minerals reach critical mass awareness – about time
Critical minerals challenge & outlook covered at IMFORMED Rendezvous 2021 ONLINE 14 April To those in the industry this is nothing new. But it is one thing for the experts to know about something important, [...]
Industrial Minerals Trading Transformation: Survival of the Fittest
Jan Weber, CEO, Possehl Erzkontor presents at the IMFORMED Rendezvous 2021 IMFORMED is delighted to announce that Jan Weber, CEO, Possehl Erzkontor GmbH & Co. KG, is to present: “Remaining valuable through dual transformation: managing [...]
Industrial minerals logistics: how important is it to the supply chain?
Future trends in port logistics spotlighted at IMFORMED Rendezvous 2021 ONLINE 14 April Events in Egypt this week served to demonstrate yet again just how significant a factor logistics plays in the supply chain of [...]
Mineral industry awards presented by SME
IMFORMED Rendezvous Roundtable Host Dan Eyde receives SME Fellow Award For understandable reasons, this year’s gathering of the global minerals community at the Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (SME)’s annual meeting (MINEXCHANGE 2021 SME [...]
Chinese magnesia latest: reforms in the Year of the Ox
As we enter the Chinese Year of the Ox, reports from China, so influential in global mineral supply and benchmark pricing, suggest change may well be in the air yet again for the magnesia supply [...]
Industrial minerals outlook: crucial global trends & developments
IMFORMED Rendezvous 2021 ONLINE 14 April Logistics | Critical Minerals | CO2 + Energy Challenges | Next Economic Cycle | Mineral Pricing | From Strategy to Profit | Grinding & Classifying Developments | Trading transformation For [...]
Mineral recycling: New horizons in a new era
Mineral Recycling Forum 2021 ONLINE Reviewed EU Critical Minerals | Refractories | Ceramics | Graphite | Bauxite | Magnesia | Mining Waste | LIBS Sorting The latest trends and developments in recycling industrial minerals were [...]
Speciality magnesia markets targeted by Callista with RHIM assets buy
RHI Magnesita sells PPL & RHI Normag to private equity firm; Normag renamed Magnor Minerals It only seems very recently that RHI Magnesita (then RHI AG) was reinforcing its captive magnesia supply base with the acquisition [...]
BPM to divest perlite business & focus on zeolite market
Unique NZ perlite operation for sale amid limited world sources Blue Pacific Minerals Ltd, New Zealand, is looking to sell its perlite extraction and processing division as it focuses on its zeolite business. Title picture: [...]
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Magnesia World Sources Map®
Primary world sources and production capacity of key magnesia raw materials
Refractory Raw Material World Sources Map®
Primary world sources and production capacity of key refractory raw materials
