Iron ore price jumps to fresh 6-year high on China building boom

Iron ore prices hit fresh six-and-a-half year highs on Monday on the back of a Chinese construction and factory expansion boom. According to Fastmarkets MB, benchmark 62% Fe fines imported into Northern China were changing hands for $130.17 a tonne on Monday, up 1.4% from Friday’s peg. That was the highest level for the steelmaking […]

FLUORSPAR 2018: Is China now a net importer of fluorspar? – Tertiary Minerals #TYM

The tightness in the fluorspar market that has been experienced by producers globally and by consumers outside China so far this year meant that the country’s imports and exports of the commodity were a key topic of discussion at Fastmarkets IM’s fluorspar conference. Diminished supplies of fluorspar in the Chinese market, at a time when […]