Abstract
InfoMine was founded in 1992 by two principals with extensive background in
the mining and processing mineral resources business who gained a hands-on
understanding of the importance of timely, accurate market information. Since
then, the company' s success and expansion have been directly attributable to
constantly working toward a goal of cost-effective analysis, interpretation
and dissemination of information throughout of mineral resources, metals,
chemicals, petrochemicals sectors. InfoMine accomplishes this objective by
utilising the right combination of people, information gathering skills,
technology, and forecasting techniques with strong commitment to client
satisfaction.
As the world' s industrial and consumer economies fluctuate, producers,
investors and buyers of mineral resources, metals, chemicals and petrochemical
products demand more concise information to ensure profitability, practice
effective business planning, and to maintain an economically healthy
supply/demand relationship. The entire spectrum of interconnected variables -
price analysis and forecasting, production capacities and costs, trade
patterns, socio-political factors, governmental regulation, emerging
technologies, material/feedstock supply - all play into cyclical scenario of
the world' s mineral resources, metals, chemicals and petrochemical products
sectors.
Accurate information and accurate analysis are essential tools for companies
involved in these industries. As participants in the business continually
strive to control operating costs, InfoMine has benefited these companies by
providing a diverse range of multi-client, single-client and proprietary
consulting services to the mentioned sectors. InfoMine has developed an
international reputation for timely delivery of the most accurate information
and analysis to its clients at a reasonable cost.
It is important to consider the myriad of information to make reliable
business decisions. InfoMine has combined the expertise of its staff with the
state-of-the-art computer and database technologies to collect, analyse and
present the most in-depth set of information available for specific mineral
resources, metals, chemicals and petrochemical products, markets and
production/process facilities.
The information available in InfoMine' s wide range of commercial studies and
client services includes:
- Raw materials supply-demand and availability;
- Geographical market analysis;
- Economic and price forecasting;
- Process technologies and process economics;
- Production/process facility information;
- Production capacity data;
- Structure and ownership pattern of enterprises;
- Producer information, including organisation, addresses, ownership and key
personnel;
- Maps, charts, graphs and electronic media to present and deliver the
information concisely.
Besides executing individual studies for our clients, InfoMine, in
collaboration with a number of well-known Western metal analysts (Roskill,
Metal Bulletin Research, American Metal Market, Brook Hunt, Resource
Strategies, etc.), publishes economic surveys on production and market of base
and minor metals (Cu, Pb, Zn, Al, Ni, Mg, Ti, etc.), raw materials for ferrous
metallurgy, a number of industrial minerals, chemicals and petrochemical
products.
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