Industrial Minerals


Rio Tinto increases Q4 borates, TiO2 feedstock output

17 January 2012

by Mark Watts

Minerals production up marginally in fourth quarter and full-year 2011

Keywords: Rio Tinto, borates, titanium dioxide, TiO2, ilmenite, vermiculite, alumina

Rio Tinto Plc marginally increased its production of borates and titanium dioxide (TiO2) feedstock year on year in the fourth quarter of 2011.

Rio Tinto, which has about a fifth of the world’s borates capacity, produced 114,000 tonnes of the glass-making mineral in Q4 2011, up 1% from the...