Flake graphite prices creep down

• Autores: Shruti Salwan
• Localización: Industrial Minerals, ISSN 0019-8544, Nº. 584, 2016 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Junio)
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Previously sluggish, the entry of new players into the spodumene market should shift the price of the lithium ore upwards, tracking those of lithium carbonate and hydroxide. Operations at Galaxy Resources' Mount Cattlin and Reed Industrial Minerals' Mount Marion will begin shipments later this year, with the former being sold onto the open market.

    The agreement marks the company's first such deal from the reopened Mt Cattlin Mine and the first sale of Australian spodumene into the open market since er by Albemarle and Tianqi (Talison sells all of its spodumene mined at its Western Australia Greenbushes operation directly to its parent companies).

    IM understands that the agreement between the Mount Marion joint venture (JV) - owned jointly by Neometals Ltd, Mineral Resources Ltd and China's Ganfeng Lithium Co. (together Reed Industrial Minerals Pty Ltd) - and joint owner Ganfeng is at prices around $540/tonne for 200,000 tonnes 6% material. Ganfeng will also buy 40,000 tonnes of 4% material.