Europe, US drift away from Chinese fluorspar
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[1] Industrial Minerals
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- Localización: Industrial Minerals, ISSN 0019-8544, Nº. 612, 2019 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Septiembre)
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
The country has also made moves toward cleaning up its mining and industrial sectors, seeking to improve air quality and reduce water pollution from factories that were once allowed free rein to produce as much as possible, regardless of the environmental consequences. [...]ex-China consumers are looking to reduce their reliance on Chinese material, which is not guaranteed to arrive if government environmental controls sweep through the mining sector again, disrupting mining, processing and exports. The reasons behind the decline in Chinese fluorspar exports to US and Europe are twofold - price and quality. Since environmental controls designed to curb pollution from mining came into force in China, ex-China consumers have struggled to find acid-grade fluorspar with the right impurity profile - namely, less than 1% silica and low levels of calcium carbonate - to satisfy their requirements. [...]for Chinese producers, increasing amounts of red tape from the central government have made the export market unfavorable, and trade tensions between China and its markets in the US and Europe have created uncertainty about the sustainability of relying on buyers in these destinations.
