Resumen de Mineral producers prepare to report weaker full year prices for 2013
According to IM's sources, large contract prices for bromine in North America remained in the $1.60-1.75/lb ($0.72-0.79/kg) range, while European bulk prices stayed between $3,000-3,150/tonne in December.
Export prices for fertiliser minerals in North America stand at $387-450/s.ton for potash muriate (KCl, granular, bulk, ex-works North America); $377-430/tonne for potash muriate (KCl, standard, bulk, FOB Vancouver); and $477-549/tonne for phosphate (DAP, FOB Central Florida), according to the IM Prices Database.
"Salt is a very stable industry, but it experienced a fall in 2012 following a combination of a very mild 2011/2012 winter in European and North American markets - the two largest markets for de-icing salt - and a very weak chloralkali industry, which accounted for 38% of salt consumption in 2012, in Western markets and, more surprisingly, in Asia," Roskill analyst, Vincent Pedailles, told IM.
