Projects in the pipeline: Green hills of Africa not as important as its sandy beaches
- Autores: John Ollett
- Localización: Industrial Minerals, ISSN 0019-8544, Nº. 547, 2013
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Over a mine life of 13 years, Base Resources is looking to produce on average 330,000 tpa ilmenite, 79,000 tpa rutile and 30,000 tpa zircon in the first seven years of operations. Over the final six years, production volumes will average 200,000 tpa ilmenite, 55,000 tpa rutile and 19,000 tpa zircon.
The [Grande Cote] project is scheduled to come online in late 2013 and is aiming to supply 575,000 tpa ilmenite, 6,000 tpa rutile, 10,000 tpa leucoxene, and 85,000 tpa zircon over a 14-year mine life.
The current capacity is 200,000 tpa titanium slag and 110,000 tpa high purity pig iron but it would look to upgrade its nameplate capacity to 220,000 tpa by 2014 and 400,000+ tpa by 2016. To do so it would have to reduce actual production in the short run to 140,000-150,000 tonnes in 2014 but increase to 200,000-220,000 tonnes again in 2015 and reach full capacity in 2016.
