US speciality chemicals producer Southern Ionics Inc. (SII) has initiated feasibility studies at a zircon deposit in Brantley and Charlton counties, south-east Georgia, to feed a new zirconium oxychloride (ZOC) plant in Alabama.
Initial results indicate that the deposit could yield 100,000 s.tons of mineral sands concentrate, comprising 13,000 s.tons of zircon and 50,000 s.tons of titanium minerals – the latter of which will...