Sierra Rutile: : Dry eyes over mineral sands

• Autores: James Sean Dickson
• Localización: Industrial Minerals, ISSN 0019-8544, Nº. 578, 2015 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Diciembre)
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This is an important shift for Sierra Rutile. "The future of this company is not in wet mining," says John Sisay, the company's Sierra Leone-born CEO. "My view of Sierra Rutile in five years consists of multiple dry rutile concentrate plants located around each mine site," he explains.

    "You can't reduce operating rates at the dredge - it's either on, or it's off," [Neil Gawthorpe] explains. "We'll have a lot more flexibility than we already have currently after the dry mining transition is complete. Turning off one unit will be fine." He admitted that the company has received "a few comments" regarding its moves to increase production in an oversupplied market. "Our peers are more diversified," Gawthorpe said. "We're probably the only single-play rutile company and all our decisions have to be based around this simple fact. We would not be expanding production if client demand for our high grade product were not there."