Industrial Minerals


Minelco to close Seqi olivine

17 February 2010

by Jessica Roberts

World’s second largest olivine producer to shut down Greenland mine by November

Keywords: olivine, Minelco, Seqi, Greenland, refractories, steel, North Cape Minerals

In another blow for the olivine market, Swedish minerals group Minelco A/S – subsidiary of iron ore producer LKAB – has revealed it intends to close its 2m. tpa capacity olivine mine in Seqinnersuusaaq, west Greenland, before the year’s end.

 

“Based on [evaluations conducted] we have decided to shut down the olivine mine located in the mining site of Seqi in Greenland,” Ingela Olsson, communications manager for Minelco, told IM....