TiO2/Zircon latest news

• December 2018

  Iluka revises rutile guidance further downward after Sierra Leone strike

  20 December 2018

  A one-week strike at Iluka’s operations in Sierra Leone caused the miner to lower its rutile production guidance for the second time this year.

• TZMI 18: Iluka predicts high-grade titanium, zircon feedstocks to remain in structural deficit

  20 December 2018

  Iluka Resources is looking into restarting its idled SR1 kiln, with high-grade chloride-titanium feedstock tight and the availability of zirconium feedstock sparse.

• TZMI 18: What we learned

  20 December 2018

  Key takeaways from independent consultant TZMI’s 2018 congress held on November 12-14 in Singapore.

• Bluejay upgrades estimate of Dundas resource

  19 December 2018

  The mining junior Bluejay has issued a new resource estimate, ahead of seeking approval for its Greenland ilmenite project.

• PRICING NOTICE: Fastmarkets IM Christmas schedule

  14 December 2018

  Certain Fastmarkets prices will be rolled over between December 25 and January 1 in observance of the Christmas and New Year holidays.

• US judge finds Tronox Cristal tie up would hit TiO2 competition

  10 December 2018

  The planned takeover of Cristal by rival TiO2 producer Tronox must overcome further regulatory hurdles before it can go ahead, a US judge has said.

• Sheffield Resources raises funds ahead of mineral sands projects construction

  10 December 2018

  Australian miner Sheffield Resources will raise some A$19 million to begin preliminary work on its Thunderbird mineral sand site.

• Chemours, Southern Ionics to jointly develop mineral sand mine in Georgia

  06 December 2018

  Chemours and Southern Ionics Mining have announced that they will jointly develop the Jesup mineral sands mine in the US state of Georgia. Production is expected to begin in 2020.