South African minerals group Sephaku Holidings is advancing with a definitive feasibility study (DFS) to build the country’s first fluorspar beneficiation plant at its Nokeng fluorspar mine.
The proposed plant would produce aluminium fluoride, sulphuric acid and hydrofluoric acid, general manager, Loek Van den Heever, told IM.
The company intends to produce some 60,000 tpa of aluminium fluoride (AlF3), which is used as an accelerator in the aluminium smelting process, and an initial 8,000 tpa of hydrofluoric acid (HF). The plant...