Resumen de Fluorspar market divided about extent of China’s environmental controls
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.
