Industrial Minerals


I-Minerals to produce K-spar and quartz at Bovill deposit

26 June 2012

by John Ollett

Idaho mine to use tailings from previous operations and supply to local companies

Keywords: kaolin, halloysite, I-Minerals, Bovill, Idaho, US

I-Minerals Inc. has begun its prefeasibility study and submitted its mining and reclamation plan for part of its kaolin, halloysite, and metakaolin Bovill project in Idaho, US.

The mining plan is for the WBL Tailings portion of the deposit which would yield 508,609 tonnes quartz-feldspar material, recoverable at rates below 50,000 tpa between June...