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EU in talks with China to avoid “catastrophic” magnesium crunch

Cecilia Jamasmie | October 22, 2021 | 10:27 am Intelligence Markets China Europe Aluminum Specialty Minerals 

European leaders, worried about the effect a global shortage of magnesium will have on the European Union’s industrial recovery from the pandemic, have open talks with China, which supplies the block with about 95% of the silvery-white metal used to make aluminum.  Local companies, including Norway's Norsk Hydro, have stopped producing magnesium because they were...

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