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Minerals world faces challenging future; potential positive outcomes provide ray of light – UPDATED
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, [...]
Recycling Industrial Minerals: Challenges, Solutions & Opportunities
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 [...]
China’s mineral supply to global markets: dominance, diversity & disruption
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, [...]
UPDATED Advisory: Covid-19 Virus & IMFORMED Forums 2020
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) [...]
Magnesia supply sector consolidates further
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), [...]
Logistics key to industrial minerals market success – UPDATED
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 [...]
IMFORMED Rendezvous 2021 Programme – UPDATED
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 [...]
Mineral Recycling: Today’s Waste, Tomorrow’s Resource
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 [...]
So, farewell then Industrial Minerals magazine…
…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 [...]
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