Industrial minerals and rocks. Commodities, markets and uses / Промышленные минералы и горные породы. Товары, рынки и виды использования

The vision for the 7th edition of Industrial Minerals and Rocks is to build on the strengths of the previous editions while adding significant new content to ensure utility and relevance to readers for years to come. The success of previous editions made this book a widely read global reference that serves as one of the most authoritative single sources for timely information on industrial minerals, their uses, and the markets where they find myriad applications.
We recognize that since the publication of the 6th edition in 1994, changes in the global economy have had a significant impact on mining, processing, and marketing industrial minerals. The challenge for this edition, then, was to capture the substantial and wide-ranging changes and their complex ramifications for the industry. For example, numerous mergers and acquisitions within the minerals and mining industries, consolidations among consuming industries, and the emergence of China and India as major players in industrial minerals markets have altered the landscape in which the industry operates. At the same time, development of new technologies and globalization of the customer base have driven fast-paced innovation in processing, packaging, transportation, and end use. <...>