Industrial Minerals


Cove Resources to produce 250,000 tpa Finnish ilmenite

30 July 2012

by John Ollett

Company to complete bankable feasibility study by Q2 2013; IRC complete purchase

Keywords: ilmenite, titanium dioxide, TiO2, Cove Resources, IRC, Endomines, Finland, Australia

Australia-based Cove Resources Ltd could produce 250,000 tpa ilmenite concentrate as well as 48,000 tpa magnetite from its recently purchased Finnish Koivu ilmenite deposit, according to a new scoping study.

The study found that the existing JORC indicated and inferred resource of 68.7m tonnes, grading 7.5% titanium dioxide (TiO2), could support a 1.6m tpa plant...