Industrial Minerals


Tioline targets full-scale minsands plant in Kazakhstan by 2013

10 October 2011

by Mark Watts

Obukhovsky project developer plans production of 50,000 tpa zircon in three years

Keywords: Tioline, mineral sands, minsands, zircon, ilmenite, rutile, Kazakhstan

A new project being developed by TOO Tioline in Kazakhstan could be a significant source of zircon within the next three years.

Tioline is developing the Obukhovsky titanium-zirconium deposit in the north of the country, and aims to start up a full-scale processing plant at the site in 2013.

The company...