Fluorspar market on edge as new participants step in

• Autores: Michael Greenfield
• Localización: Industrial Minerals, ISSN 0019-8544, Nº. 604, 2018 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Septiembre)
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • With demand currently strong and little clarity about when, or if, the idled operations in China will come back on stream, the expected production from Canada Fluorspar and Sepfluor could create the next pinch point for the market’s supply-demand balance. Sepfluor will serve a wide range of users via shipments of 5,000-8,000 tonnes until June next year, allowing consumers to gauge the consistency and quality of the material and to decide whether it can be accepted in their own production systems, according to Wagner. Unless there is a significant shift in demand, this makes the long-term effects of the Chinese environmental controls the major driver of the market’s supply-and-demand balance, and therefore of prices. Magnitude is considering “the restart of a third and final pot line of primary production capacity, if and when market conditions allow,” chief executive officer Robert Prusak has told Metal Bulletin.