Industrial Minerals


S Africa to enter graphite market?

04 March 2010

by Alex Feytis

Jonkel expected to be South Africa’s first graphite producer before the end of 2010

Keywords: Graphite, South Africa, Jonkelkoza, Jonkel, Matimba Khoza

South Africa’s Jonkel Group has revealed to IM that it intends to produce graphite before the end of 2010, through its subsidiary Jonkelkoza Minerals and Resources (Pty) Ltd (Jonkel Mine) created a year ago in order to “exploit existing and future natural graphite opportunities”.

“Jonkel Mines has identified all graphite economic deposits here in South Africa and is working on them for future mining,” declared Matimba Khoza, president of the...