Cristal mineral sand operation disrupted by equipment failure [UPDATE]
By Cameron Perks
Published: Thursday, 01 November 2018
A section of Cristal Mining's Ginkgo heavy mineral sand floating wet concentration plant is below water, with no indication yet on down-time or how this may affect the miner’s rutile and zircon production.
A section of the wet concentration plant at Cristal
Mining’s Australia-based Ginkgo heavy mineral sand
operation, located in the New South Wales portion of Murray
Basin and roughly 55km from the town of Pooncarie, has taken on
water and has been nonoperational since September 15, the miner
told Industrial Minerals.
On September 15,...