Fluorspar market divided about extent of China’s environmental controls

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

  • Possibility of new environmental inspections may push up fluorspar prices in China, but it could be only scare tactics to force through a price rise.A fresh round of environmental inspections in China has targeted fluorspar miners among others, raising expectations that prices will become subject to upward pressure, market participants have said. [...]operating rates at Chinese fluorspar producers have been as low as 45-50%, another Chinese source said. Changing market dynamics hint at supply pressures Other market participants, however, see recent changes in producer and consumer practice as evidence of concerns about future tightness.