Fluorspar: Developing projects for'at-risk' mineral
- Autores: Siobhan Lismore-Scott
- Localización: Industrial Minerals, ISSN 0019-8544, Nº. 551, 2013
- Idioma: inglés
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"As we stated in the latest [IM] Fluorspar conference in Vancouver, our company has a dual strategy in the sense that we act as both a standalone company and represent a partial backward vertical integration for Fluorsid Group" [Lorenzo Di Donato] highlighted, adding: "Although we are certainly not the cheapest source of fluorspar in the world, we are competitive enough to sell to our parent company and to other HF producers. We believe this is the most promising set-up for our group's assets." "We have three aims with this project," [Richard Clemmey] told IM: "We want to drill an area which will give an initial 10-year mine life; we know there is a higher grade zone within the mineralisation, so we want to target that and, finally, there is an area which shows sign of having fluorspar at surface, so we want to look into that." "At the end of the day the world needs fluorspar. There's not a single commercial mine in Canada or the US in production," CEO Robert Bick told IM. "We are confident we are sitting on a significant resource."
