Industrial Minerals


Madagascar 267m. tonne heavy minerals discovery

05 July 2011

by Mike O'Driscoll

Varun Industries finds titanium minerals, monazite, garnet, and sillimanite deposit

Varun Industries Ltd has reported the discovery of a large resource of heavy minerals in Madagascar hosting ilmenite, leucoxene, rutile, zircon, garnet, monazite, and spinel.

The discovery comprises ten mining blocks covering an area of 62.5km2 at Belay and Anosy in Madagascar.

The blocks host 266.8m. tonnes of heavy minerals (HM). Content in the blocks varies between 23-39%, with an average of 29% HM...