Kaolin & clays and Talc

Their prices have moved together.

Kaolin & clays (commodity) and Talc (commodity): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Price link: substitute

Cost and price · Moderate · Both ways

Kaolin and other clays compete with talc as fillers in paper, ceramics and plastics, and both proxies cover US non-metallic mineral producers. Monthly moves barely correlate, at 0.03, but yearly moves reach 0.44, a sign of shared slow cost and demand trends.

• 0.03 monthly change correlation
• 0.44 12-month change correlation
• 1.45 fitted elasticity

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