Industrial Minerals

Functional Fillers, Pigments

• Industry rebuilding in Q2 Friday, September 03, 2010

  The industrial minerals industry showed signs of recovery in Q2 as customers continued to rebuild inventories, but the short-term outlook remains cloudy Read More

• Rio in new look for talc buyer Friday, September 03, 2010

  Rio Tinto re-launches search for potential suitors; says “under no pressure to divest” Read More

• Price Briefing: Week 35 Thursday, September 02, 2010

  REs still rocketing, magnesia & alumina rises; Q4 talks for chromite and potash Read More

• Iluka explores new synrutile Friday, August 27, 2010

  Minsands miner to use Mid West kiln for Murray Basin/Jacinth ilmenite testing Read More

• Shortages in welding rutile Friday, August 27, 2010

  Lack of Ukraine rutile output hits welding market; sellers enjoy higher prices rise Read More

• TiO2 feedstock regains footing Thursday, August 26, 2010

  Iluka and Kenmare H2 results show solid sales, strong outlook for feedstock suppliers Read More

• Price Briefing: Week 34 Thursday, August 26, 2010

  Graphite and RE price hikes, antimony trioxide jumps while metspar prices firm Read More

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• Ukraine’s gift and curse September 2010

  Some of Europe’s richest mineral resources lie in the middle of an energy resources super-highway from Russia into Europe. This route has given Ukraine an abundance of cheap gas that has underpinned its economy. It is an asset that has attracted many, and one that could be its undoing Read More

• Alumina’s balancing act September 2010

  Producers juggle a delicate supply-demand balance as alumina’s end use sectors call for increasing production from a market still emerging from economic hardship Read More

• People and Places September 2010 September 2010

  Flavio Rezende Barbosa, Magnesita; Bernhard Pagenkemper, Haver & Boecker; Michael Wolfe, NYCO Minerals; Barry M. Martin, Atlantic Industrial Minerals; Adam Smits, Mineral Deposits Ltd Read More

• Henan Billions enacts 200,000 tpa TiO2 expansion September 2010

  Billions eyes millions with yet another titanium dioxide expansion in Henan province but falls on TZMI plant rankings Read More

• Chinese TiO2 industry facing consolidation September 2010

  Top eight pigment producers to dominate market as India and Vietnam seek titanium dioxide independence Read More

• Kaolin consolidation continues with Imerys stake in PPSA September 2010

  French kaolin giant continues dominance of industry with Brazilian buy Read More

• Oman mineral port for 2012 September 2010

  Sohar Industrial Port Co.'s new minerals port throws Oman's trade doors wide open Read More

• TiO2 pigment price recovery Friday, August 20, 2010

  Titanium dioxide prices begin to stick; rutile supply to tighten, prices to rise Read More

• TiO2 drags Jade into profit Tuesday, August 17, 2010

  Shift from coal to Chinese TiO2 makes Jade Technologies first profit in 9 years Read More

• Henan TiO2 expansion completed Monday, August 16, 2010

  New 100,000 tpa titanium dioxide expansion finished as Henan Billions looks abroad Read More

• Sumy TiO2 privatisation looms Monday, August 16, 2010

  State-owned Ukrainian titanium dioxide producer explores private ownership Read More

• Image extends minsands reserves Friday, August 13, 2010

  Explorer bolsters TiO2 minerals and zircon resources with Eucla Basin acquisition Read More