Industrial mineralsPub Date : 2017-01-01DOI: 10.5406/illinois/9780252038594.003.0001
D. Ghilotti
{"title":"Back to black","authors":"D. Ghilotti","doi":"10.5406/illinois/9780252038594.003.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252038594.003.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Supply: up and down they go Securing sufficient supplies of graphite had not been problematic for consumers over the past few years. [...]months ago, most perceived the global graphite market to be lingering in a situation of oversupply and sluggish demand.Sales to the battery sector were increasing while those to refractories were weak but, overall, buyers knew they could place an order on almost any day and be certain of finding the material and at a good price. According to the World Steel Association, global steel production increased by 5.6% in the nine months to September 2017 to 1.267 billion tonnes, with notable expansions across all regions.Leading the way was Latin America, where output rose 8% on year-ago levels. [...]in their latest updates to investors, leading refractories suppliers such as RHI Magnesita and Vesuvius all highlighted improving steel markets as a leading factor in growth in total business in 2017 to date. First production at the Balama project was achieved in the second half of October, with initial bagged volumes shipped to customers in November.Primary end-markets in the first year of production will be refractories and metallurgy (carbon-raising applications), Syrah told Industrial Minerals at the UniteCR refractories conference in Santiago, Chile, in September, But the company is also keen to establish a presence in the fast-growing battery market, it added.","PeriodicalId":13542,"journal":{"name":"Industrial minerals","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79335002","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nerves of titanium","authors":"Kasia Patel","doi":"10.2307/j.ctt6wrb1x.28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt6wrb1x.28","url":null,"abstract":"\"The question we get asked all the time is, what are the repercussions of bringing on a 200,000 tonne line in a market that's from some vantage points already overserved,\" O'[Sullivan] sad. \"Rest assured, we've offset this with some decline in other asset output. Just like we've always done, and I suspect everyone else always does, we manage a global circuit of capabilities designed to find the sweet spot between customer needs and our needs. I don't think that's unique.\" The Thann plant in France was the first in the world to produce TiO[subscript]2 in 1922 and uses a sulphate-based process. The company's Brazilian plant in Bahia, located around 20km from Salvador also produces TiO[subscript]2 using the sulphate process. [Cristal]'s remaining five plants utilise the chloride process for TiO[subscript]2 production. \"In the past few years, demand for TiO[subscript]2 in plastic and paper has increased faster than for paint and ink,\" [George Chen] said. \"The demand for wallpaper increased by over 15% in 2015 and demand for TiO[subscript]2 in Chinese wallpaper reached over 220,000 tonnes in the same year.\"","PeriodicalId":13542,"journal":{"name":"Industrial minerals","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79831433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"People and places","authors":"M. McCormick","doi":"10.2307/1295870","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1295870","url":null,"abstract":"My arrival at Sierra Rutile coincides with an exciting period of the company's journey. My own background spans mining operations, new business and investment banking across many commodity groups and geographies. For this reason I have a very global view on how a successful extractive business should operate and conduct itself. The existing Sierra Rutile team at the board and management level can teach me a lot about the idiosyncrasies of mineral sands markets and the assets themselves. I have a high level of confidence that we can position the company for where it needs to be five, 10 and 20 years from now. We all strongly believe in the asset base and its relevance to its current and future customer base. Absolutely, Sierra Rutile emerged from the Ebola outbreak with no cases to report and continues to maintain stringent health monitoring standards. Sierra Rutile achieved record annual production in 2015 and in 2016 is on track to commission the Gangama dry mine on time and on budget. Additionally, Sierra Rutile's focus on corporate social responsibility is impressive. They not only support the community, but proactively play a major role in helping the overall economy recover.","PeriodicalId":13542,"journal":{"name":"Industrial minerals","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75303279","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Great Occasion","authors":"Siobhan Lismore-Scott, Kasia Patel, E. Hughes","doi":"10.2307/935388","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/935388","url":null,"abstract":"''The question was whether, as Professor [Robert] Bates put it, 'the IM Congress of 1974 will become the first of a series - or go down in a blaze of glory as a one-time operation,''' the coverage of the first Congress mused. Selling natural graphite is not easy, especially when selling a new graphite mine's full capacity of all the different qualities it produces. [Asbury Carbons] signed an exclusive sales and marketing agreement in 1988 with the original investors of the 'Stratmin Graphite Mine' in Lac-des-lles, Quebec, Canada and closed our smaller graphite mine 'Graphite Asbury Quebec'. Going back to 2006 when we restarted Sierra Rutile, we saw very flat pricing until 2010 brought about by legacy contracts. By the end of 2011, prices had more than doubled compared to 2010 and at the start of 2012 they doubled again. Prices continued to appreciate until mid-2012 and then gradually drifted down to the levels we see today. However these levels are still considerably higher than those seen at the end of the legacy contract ''era''.","PeriodicalId":13542,"journal":{"name":"Industrial minerals","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77154248","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Changing the face of mining","authors":"Ken Stapylton","doi":"10.1142/s0950609801000749","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s0950609801000749","url":null,"abstract":"\"Currently, women represent 16% of Australia's resource industry,\" said Andrea Mitchell, member for Kingsley, WA, during a reception of the UK [WiM] group, hosted by the governments of WA and Queensland. \"In particular, WA is committed to the development of the African mining sector, where women have a vital role (...) South Africa leads the world when it comes to women on boards in the mining industry, followed by Australia,\" she concluded. According to Amanda Van Dyke, chairman of WiM, an earlier study which looked at trends within corporations \"sought to correlate the performance of mining industry organisations with the level of gender diversity within them - to demonstrate some of the benefits that higher female representation on boards and in senior executive positions can have on corporate performance\".","PeriodicalId":13542,"journal":{"name":"Industrial minerals","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87262491","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The rough with the smooth","authors":"Siobhan Lismore-Scott","doi":"10.12968/prps.2016.180.24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12968/prps.2016.180.24","url":null,"abstract":"\"Therefore, all the countries that have a strong durable goods industry will demand more abrasives. Coated abrasives demand is also driven by repairs and maintenance besides durable goods,\" he added. \"SiC is priced higher than BFA and typically higher than WFA and other white aluminas,\" Curimbaba explained, although other market sources said that SiC sits between BFA and WFA, with BFA being the lowest-price grade (see pp47-54). \"This means countries rightly continue to ban the use of silica sand and are also making it difficult to cost-effectively dump the mineral's slag abrasives, which form the bulk of loose disposal abrasives, after use,\" the source added.","PeriodicalId":13542,"journal":{"name":"Industrial minerals","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77174702","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"People and places","authors":"Industrial Minerals","doi":"10.2307/1307866","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1307866","url":null,"abstract":"What are your main objectives as chief operating officer? I am very excited to have joined Desert Lion Energy at a time when we have to transition the company in Namibia from an exploration and development company to a proper mining operation with a solid base and a bright future. The development of the operation is planned in three phases: lithium concentrate production from stockpiles; lithium concentrate production from in-situ ore; and conversion of lithium oxide to lithium carbonate.We are in the process of completing and declaring our maiden resource estimate, the issuance of our mining license is imminent, and we are well on track with regard to building a small lithium oxide concentration plant (phase 1), while finalizing the design work on our bigger concentrator for start-up and commissioning by the end of 2019 (phase 2). The aim of Vision 2030 is the creation of an open, diversified market economy with a resource-based industrial sector, a commercial agricultural sector and with the focus on skills development.","PeriodicalId":13542,"journal":{"name":"Industrial minerals","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79581551","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"People and places","authors":"C. Douville","doi":"10.2307/1296024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1296024","url":null,"abstract":"Prior to joining Ansac in July, I was the general manager of Tata Chemical's North American natural soda ash operations and from 2000-2008, I was the company's vice president of sales and marketing. Over the entire 13-year period, I was a member of Ansac's board of directors. Therefore, my experiences from the mine and production site in Green River, through the global supply channels to the end customer, as well as my knowledge of Ansac's operations and its core strengths, provide me with a solid foundation to build on the successes that Ansac has achieved during the past 30 years. \u0000 \u0000The biggest challenge for the global soda ash industry in the year ahead will be the continued economic uncertainty that pervades across much of the world. In 2013, we project global soda ash demand to grow by 2% versus 2012. Historically, global growth has been closer to 3%. This slowdown in growth has forced some of the world's more costly soda ash operations to shut production. Although Ansac and its member companies will see shipments increase in 2013, and is projecting a return to more historic soda ash growth rates in 2014, Ansac's challenge will be to continue to achieve its long-term global growth objectives.","PeriodicalId":13542,"journal":{"name":"Industrial minerals","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79968603","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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