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Industrial Minerals

• Noting that past performance is not an indicator of future performance, Chemours' O'[Sullivan] added: "I've never been so pleased to exit 2015 and go forward because we're all getting a little more healthy now." Bernstein analysts said in a report that lithium demonstrates all the characteristics of a commodity bubble - "an apparent very compelling bull case"; "an expanding supply side, no barriers to entry"; and "technological breakthroughs to take lithium through the floor".

  "I don't believe it," one major battery producer told IM adding that the major companies in the market "don't want to ride a speculative wave and fall (...) they will release as much material as the market can handle".