Bauxite/BFA supply shortage | CMP last man standing? The heat is on: Chinese BFA is in short supply, prices are rising fast, and Henan province expects plant closures Nov 2017-Mar 2018. If ever [...]

Offtake deals for new players | Ceylon Graphite exploration As the industry builds up to its annual meeting at Graphite Supply Chain 2017, 5-7 November, Balboa Bay Resort, Newport Beach, organised by IMFORMED and Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, [...]

Fluorspar market upturn projected for 2018 | US HFC ban showdown "We have to make underground mining in the UK more efficient, that is the future." Peter Robinson, Chairman, British Fluorspar. Courtesy British Fluorspar [...]

Canada Fluorspar leads pack of emerging new suppliers Canada Fluorspar Inc.’s St Lawrence mine was officially opened, or rather, reactivated last month, following almost 40 years of exploration and attempts to restart operations since the [...]

Book Now! Early Bird Closing Soon €1400 | £1200 | US$1500 Thereafter:  €1900 | £1600 | US$2000 Meet the global fluorine market in San Luis Potosi Visit the world's largest mine of Mexichem [...]

The prospect of China’s magnesite mining sector coming under state ownership accompanied by consolidation of major players into one entity is looking increasingly likely to come to fruition this year. The Huaziyu magnesite mine, [...]

• Environmental and explosives controls impact output, prices increase • Magnesite supply reform: state control of raw magnesite sales • Bauxite/BFA supply also challenged How green is my valley? Mining of magnesite and production [...]

SepFluor kickstarts Nokeng as Doornhoek awaits green light Core values: logging core at SepFluor's Nokeng project, where 12.2m tonnes of ore have been measured at an average of about 27% CaF2. Courtesy SepFluor [...]

Despite a decline in world fluorspar demand in 2016 owing to weak demand particularly for metallurgical-grade material, the outlook remains strong for fluorine in the steel, aluminium, and fluoropolymer markets as prices firm during 2017. [...]