Industrial Minerals


Production slows at Kenmare’s Mozambique minsands mine

05 March 2012

by John Ollett

Kenmare struggle with power supply problems; Baobab JORC resource for Tete

Keywords: Kenmare, Moma, Mozambique, Baobab, ilmenite, Tete, Carvill

Output at Ireland’s Kenmare Resource Plc’s Moma mine in Mozambique, fell to 116,500 tonnes of heavy minerals concentrate (HMC) for January and February 2012, the company told IM.

The company said that the fall in production — which would normally be around 150,000 tonnes in this period — was due to power supply problems and a clay rich ore...