The state-owned Industrial Development Corporation of Odisha Limited (Idcol) and Indian Rare Earths Limited (IREL) signed an MoU on Saturday to set up a heavy mineral separation plant in Ganjam district at the cost of Rs 450 crore.
Unseasonably low rainfall this summer is pushing parts of South Africa towards damaging water shortages, threatening major industries from mining to agriculture.
MZI Resources has started development of its Keysbrook Mineral Sands Project located 70 kilometres south of Perth in Western Australia with first production expected in December 2015.
VV Minerals, a Tamilnadu-based mining firm having largest market share in ilmenite production and exports, has evinced interest for excavation and refining of the mineral in Odisha with an investment of Rs 100 crore.
A grim sight greets the eye as the roads wind towards a sleepy fishing hamlet called Periyasamypuram in Tuticorin district, Tamil Nadu. There is red and brown everywhere — a desert-like landscape with even the few remaining palms drying up. The residents of this small village are equally grim and not people to mess with. They have managed to kick the beach sand mining mafia right out of their village.
The Kerala government will soon issue a roadmap on what needs to be done after the high court overturned its decision to bar private sector from mining mineral beach sands in the state, Chief Minister Oommen Chandy said in Thiruvananthapuram on Sunday.
Two Chinese companies on Monday signed a contract with the Mozambican government to exploit the titanium-bearing heavy mineral sands in Chibuto district, in the southern province of Gaza.
Goondicum Resources CEO Mark McCauley said this operation is unique due to the inland location, high quality ilmenite, clay content of the surrounding soil and low amount of toxic elements.
A mining company says it can push ahead with building a new heavy mineral sand mine on Cape York Peninsula after securing $5 million of Chinese investment.
Base Resources Limited, the Australian company developing a mineral-sands project in Kenya, said it is working with the authorities in the country to have an export levy imposed by a local government rescinded.