Industrial Minerals


Alkane and Mintech in talks on Australia zirconium chemicals JV

26 July 2011

by Mark Watts

Dubbo project’s zirconium to be processed at Mintech’s Western Australia ZOC plant

Keywords: Alkane Resources, Mintech, zirconium. zirconia, ZOC, zircon, rare earths

Australia’s Alkane Resources and Mintech Chemicals Industries are in talks over a joint venture to produce zirconium oxychloride (ZOC) using raw materials from Alkane’s Dubbo project.

Under a memorandum of understanding (MOU), the joint venture will carry out a scoping study to...