Industrial Minerals


Fire damages Matilda Zircon mineral sands processing plant

09 June 2011

by Mark Watts

Significant damage sustained to under-construction Lethbridge South facility

Keywords: Matilda Zircon, zircon, rutile, mineral sands, titanium dioxide

A fire has caused significant damage to the processing plant at Matilda Zircon’s Lethbridge South project in Australia, the mineral sands producer said.The facility was under construction when a fire broke out on 7 June, which “resulted...