Table 26: US Recent Past, Current & Future Analysis for
Fluorspar by End Use Segment - Hydrofluoric Acid & Aluminum Fluoride, Basic Oxygen Furnaces, Electric Furnaces and Other Uses Independently Analyzed With Annual Consumption in Thousand Metric Tons for years 2001 through 2010 (includes corresponding Graph/Chart) III-3
The petition by the community comes after the Kenya
Fluorspar Company suspended mining operations and laid off workers owing to slump in
fluorspar prices in the world market.
It includes magnesium, cobalt, niobium,
fluorspar, platinum, gallium, rare earths, graphite and tungsten.
For instance, Washington complains: "China imposes export duty rates, 'temporary' export duty rates, and/or 'special' export duty rates of various magnitudes on bauxite, coke,
fluorspar, magnesium, manganese, silicon metal, yellow phosphorus, and zinc" not permitted under China's WTO accession agreement.
St Lawrence's story is captured in the subtitle, "Industrial Carnage," and the carnage of the effects of
fluorspar is what gets spoken of most frequently by surviving miners and their families.
Martial reports that a murrhine cup improved the flavour of wine, perhaps because
fluorspar has a loose crystalline structure and is best smeared with resin before carving.
Over the period, for example, the United States has (1) consistently relied on imports to provide between 77 percent and 100 percent of its
fluorspar needs--a key ingredient in the manufacture of aluminum, gasoline, steel, and uranium fuel; (2) fluctuated in its reliance on imports to meet its need for copper, importing copper in most years and providing net exports in 1975 and 1991; (3) decreased its reliance on imports of nickel from a high of 80 percent in 1978 to a estimated low of 17 percent in 2007; (4) consistently been a net exporter of gold between 1982 and 2003; and (5) been a net exporter of magnesium metal until 1997, when the United States began to import magnesium metal.
Under permission granted in 1952, the operator can only extract limestone as a by-product of extracting
fluorspar and bayerites, which are both vein minerals found within limestone and used industrially and ornamentally.
The Illinois
fluorspar district has been famous as a source of fluorite and galena since 1812, although in the early history of the district only galena was mined (for lead and silver).
Fluorspar industry--Health aspects--Newfoundland and Labrador--St.
Although known by various names, the blue banded
fluorspar of Derbyshire is not found anywhere else in the world, and as such, has been mined for centuries.
The primary revenue sources in the city are mining (diatomite,
fluorspar, gold, gypsum, iron ore, lead, mercury, silver and tungsten), agriculture, retail trade and tourism.
