Industrial Minerals


Exxaro drops SA minsands plan

01 December 2009

by Simon Moores

Another major TiO2 feed development gets shelved as Exxaro pulls Fairbreeze project

Keywords: Exxaro, minsands, TiO2, rutile, ilmenite, leucoxene

Titanium dioxide (TiO2) producers have been hit with another major feedstock blow as South African producer, Exxaro Resources Ltd, cancelled all plans to develop the Fairbreeze minsands mine in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN).

 

Exxaro did, however, express a policy of looking for new feedstock sources to develop while buyers...