Ores & Minerals

Fluorspar, also known as fluorite, is mainly composed of calcium fluoride (CaF₂). It is an important industrial mineral used in fluorochemical production, metallurgy, aluminum fluoride,…

Fluorspar, also known as fluorite, is an industrial mineral feedstock mainly composed of calcium fluoride, CaF₂. For the fluorochemical and aluminum smelting industries, its value…

Metallurgical grade fluorspar — a fine ground calcium fluoride (CaF₂) mineral — plays an understated but indispensable role across modern metallurgical and material processing industries.…

Half of the world’s fluorspar production is used to manufacture hydrofluoric acid, and then develop the manufacture of cryolite for aluminum smelting industry.

Fluorite is also widely used in glass, ceramics, cement and other building materials industry, the amount of which occupies the second place in China.

Fluorspar is mainly used in blast furnace smelting, hot metal pretreatment, steelmaking (roughing) and secondary liquid steel refining under special furnace conditions.