A palette immense de characteristics, another variety endless de potential !
The world of ores, minerals and metals offers immense potential for combinations thanks to different and very often combinable technical properties.
This is the magic of our profession and the creativity of our Research and Development engineers for centuries. Each element of Mendeleev's table is specific, both from a technical and from a geological and industrial perspective.
You will find a very relevant source of information on all the elements from this site:
MINERALS & ORE
Other very useful scientific and technical information is available from the site InfoTerre from BRGM to better understand our subsoil.
At the same time, the French portal for mineral resources - Mineral Info - addressing minerals and current issues offers good complements
To learn all about mineral issues for businesses, you can also find good sources on French Observatory of Mineral Resources for Industrial Sectors : A3M is an active structuring partner of OFREMI.
There is also an ecosystem of academic or learned societies. We offer you three links to the most well-known in France:
Other European resources also exist:
- RMIS - Raw Materials Information System
- EGDI - European Geological Data Infrastructure
- GeoERA - European Geological Survey Research Area
STEEL
Regarding steel there is a wide range of sites with relevant content.
Some points to remember:
- The evolution of global production in recent years compared to European and specifically French production in volume.
(see sources: Worldsteel, Eurofer, figures in open access)
- And this same evolution in percentage:
(see source Worldsteel)
Beyond the strong growth of the Asian market, we are currently witnessing overcapacity in this same region, resulting in massive exports to the European Union, often under unfair economic conditions of competition. This overcapacity, around 500 Mt worldwide, is expected to increase by an additional 150 Mt in the coming years.
For more information on the figures, link to the worldsteel website: https://worldsteel.org/
Site the OECD provides a wealth of information as part of the studies carried out by its Steel Committee and its Steel Overcapacity Monitoring Group.
Among the available elements, on the database of accessible documents:
- a distribution of production procedures steel by main countries
- flows related to steel : an essential component of the electric path (EAF) and the decarbonization of the steel sector
- orders of magnitude on the carbon emissions according to the steelmaking processes
