TiZir reports titanium slag output decline in Q1, forecasts rising minsands prices

• Autores: Cameron Perks
• Localización: Industrial Minerals, ISSN 0019-8544, Nº. 602, 2018 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Mayo - Junio)
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Mineral sands producer TiZir has announced a 33% year-on-year drop in output in the first quarter of 2018.

    The Norway-based company attributed the fall to “an unscheduled maintenance outage of the pre-reduction kiln stemming from a gearbox failure.” The company produced 34,000 tonnes of titanium slag and sold 36,600 tonnes in the first quarter, compared with 50,700 tonnes and 62,100 tonnes respectively in the fourth quarter of 2017.

    At the company’s Grande Cote mineral sands operation (GCO) in Senegal, West Africa, a drop in finished goods production was created primarily by a reduction in ilmenite volumes. These fell to 104,104 tonnes in the first quarter of 2018 from 126,298 tonnes in the last quarter of 2017.

    Production of zircon in the first quarter declined slightly to 15,805 tonnes from 16,400 tonnes in the previous quarter, but sales increased to 17,906 tonnes from 17,614 tonnes in the same comparison.