Industrial Minerals


CMP buys Guizhou bauxite mine for abrasives, refractories

24 May 2012

by Mike O'Driscoll

Aims to develop proppant grades, in addition to abrasive and refractory grades

Keywords: bauxite, refractory bauxite, non-metallurgical bauxite, calcined bauxite, CMP, Bosai

China Mineral Processing Co. Ltd has recently purchased a new bauxite mine at Xiuwen, in Guizhou province, southern China.

 

The new mine has proven reserves of 3m tonnes and the official mining licence was granted to CMP Xiuwen Mining Development in March 2011.

 

Open pit mining plus a single adit will initially be used to produce 100-200,000 tpa of non-metallurgical grade bauxite.

 

According to James Devlin, managing director of CMP Sales Europe, the mine is already producing abrasive...