Two companies mine 85% of all boron. China holds a near monopoly on downstream processing. Now a California mine wants to break open this opaque market.
Metso Outotec to conduct a study on reducing Mount Peake titanium-vanadium-magnetite concentrates with Circored, a technology that uses hydrogen as its only reductant source.
Proposals to soften the impact of surging power prices will not shield metals producers from further production cuts and job losses, industry groups say.
