Industrial Minerals


Sheffield Resources begin drilling on new zircon prospect

12 July 2012

by John Ollett

Crimea Titan produce 45,939 tonnes sulphate route TiO2 so far in 2012

Keywords: zircon, ilmenite, titanium dioxide, TiO2, Sheffield Resources, Crimea Titan, Ukraine, White Mountain

Australia-based zircon explorer Sheffield Resources has begun drilling to estimate a mineral resource for a region of its Dampier project that has an exploration target of 450-850m tonnes grading 5-10% heavy mineral content.

The exploration target for this Thunderbird prospect is based on previous Rio Tinto drilling in 2004 and 2009 that discovered mineral assemblages of 8%...