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Supplies of fluorspar for Australian industry

Created 17/10/2025

Updated 17/10/2025

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Attention was directed to the inadequacy of supplies of acid grade fluorspar in Australia when the Bureau of Mineral Resources was asked to sponsor an application to import a quantity from England in 1948. The British Ministry of Supply released a proportion of the amount required but advised that the supply position in England was not secure and only limited quantities could be released for export in the future. The Ministry suggested that if known Australian requirements were likely to be heavy, some material might be supplied as a matter of urgency. An investigation of the fluorspar industry in Australia was then undertaken to estimate future requirements and the extent to which these could be met from domestic sources; the results of this investigation are the subject of this report. The uses, grading, consumption, supply, prices, and projected future supplies of fluorspar are discussed.

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Title Supplies of fluorspar for Australian industry
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/a24d5f3a-53c8-4163-a0c3-c0e92ce638d8
Contact Point
Geoscience Australia Data
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Reference Period 20/04/2018
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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Supplies of fluorspar for Australian industry". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/supplies-of-fluorspar-for-australian-industry