Lucky 13? Only if you're in oilfield markets

• Autores: Siobhan Lismore-Scott
• Localización: Industrial Minerals, ISSN 0019-8544, Nº. 555, 2013
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • When markets are depressed the whole supply chain is affeted. It's no coincidence that IM's tagline states that we cover the industry "from mine to market". This incorporates not only the producers of the minerals, but also the processing plants, the inspectors and the shippers.

    One area which has seen renewed demand, however, is in the oilfield minerals market (see pp44-45). At IM's Oilfield Minerals Outlook: Middle East, which took place in January 2013, the market was assured of several factors [Eth] one of which was the rising global oilfield minerals demand.

    This has, of course, has had an impact on other minerals markets. A refractory minerals producer told IM in September that the production of mullite had all but ceased as kilns were being used to fire bauxite proppants constantly.