Resumen de IM Prices December 2013

Industrial Minerals

• Prices for trioxide grade antimony ingot (99.65% min) fell from $10,200-10,500/tonne to $9,550-9,900/tonne for both FOB China and CIF Rotterdam contracts in November. Large purchases of antimony metal by China's State Reserve Bureau also failed to stop metallic market prices from falling further, but stibnite values have remained unchanged, sources said.

  "Prices for acid grade fluorspar (acidspar, 97% CaF 2, wet filtercake, FOB, China) increased from a range of $290-320/tonne to $310-330/tonne, information collected by IM Data indicated in November.

  Rutile, concentrate, min. 95% TiO 2, bagged, FOB Australia, $/tonne