Industrial Minerals


S Africa re-enters wollastonite

23 February 2010

by Alex Feytis

Namaqua to start up wollastonite production in April; targets 23,000 tonnes for 2014

Keywords: Namaqua Wollastonite, South Africa, Magata deposit, Van Der Merwe, Western Investment

South Africa’s Namaqua Wollastonite (Pty) Ltd has revealed to IM that it expects to start producing wollastonite in April this year at its Magata wollastonite project located about 14km north east of Garies, Namaqualand, in the Northern Cape province of South Africa.

“Continuous production will commence once a picking plant is commissioned, which is estimated to be April...