Richards Bay Minerals

South Africa · Placer

Opened: 1977
Region: KwaZulu-Natal
Status: Active
Country: South Africa
Type: Placer
Latitude: -28.7
Longitude: 32.15

Notes

Coastal dunes dredged in a moving pond, the heavy minerals spiralled out, and the dunes rebuilt and replanted behind; ilmenite is smelted on site to titania slag.

Commodities

Iron Zirconium Titanium

Referenced by

element

Iron Titanium Zirconium

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