Industrial Minerals

Exposure

• Bayovar potash September 2010

  GrowMax, a subsidiary of Americas Petrogas Inc., Canada, is developing a surface potash brine reservoir and evaporite deposit at Bayovar in the Sechura Desert of north-west Peru Read More

• Lac à Paul phosphate/ilmenite deposit August 2010

  Ressources d’Arianne Inc. has decided to now concentrate on its phosphate assets owing to the opportunities of the growing fertiliser market. The company hopes to start production of phosphate and ilmenite within the next five years at its Lac a Paul deposit in Quebec, Canada Read More

• Aroche wollastonite July 2010

  The Aroche wollastonite deposits are found in the western edge of the Aracena Metamorphic Belt, a high-temperature/low-pressure metamorphic band located in south-west Spain. Read More

• Creswick quartz June 2010

  As mineral processing technology advances, developers are looking at converting old mining tailings into new, high-value feedstocks. In Australia, Creswick Quartz Pty Ltd is expecting to bring on stream a new source of high quality quartz from the waste tailings of late 19th century alluvial gold mines in central-west Victoria Read More

• Mauritanian quartz May 2010

  The Mauritanian Minerals Co. (MMC) plans to produce high purity quartz at its deposit located at Oum Agueneina in Mauritania, about 150km from Nouadhibou port on the West Sahara border. Read More

• Balla Balla titanomagnetite April 2010

  Australia’s Aurox Resources Ltd plans to produce ilmenite and phosphate as a by-product of iron ore processing (titanomagnetite) at its Balla Balla mine near Whim Creek, in Pilbara, Western Australia Read More

• Williston salt and potash March 2010

  Dakota Salts LLC, focused on the exploitation of large salt deposits in Canada but with a post mining new energy-environmental benefit angle, works on a twofold project: exploration and extraction of salt and potash, and the creation of caverns for the storage of natural gas and other hydrocarbons Read More

• Grande-Vallée aluminous clays February 2010

  Montreal-based Exploration Orbite VSPA. Inc. is working towards producing alumina at its Grande-Vallée property, an aluminous clay deposit located in the Gaspe region, Quebec, Canada. The project will come as good news for alumina industry players looking for alternatives to bauxite Read More

• Minago frac sand January 2010

  Victory Nickel Inc., based in Toronto, is working towards developing a frac sand deposit that overlies the company’s nickel deposit at its Minago project in Manitoba’s Thompson Nickel Belt Read More

• St Lawrence wollastonite December 2009

  The wollastonite industry is a small world and its supply has been heavily concentrated for years, being split between a handful of producers (IM November 2009, p26: Wollastonite’s pins and needles). However, new players are vying to enter the market, such as Canadian Wollastonite which hopes to become the third producer in North America after RT Vanderbilt Co. Inc. and NYCO Minerals Inc. Read More

• Doornhoek Fluorspar Project November 2009

  Doornhoek Fluorspar Project in South Africa is believed to be one of the world’s largest and highest grade fluorspar deposits, potentially containing in excess of 50m. tonnes at an average grade exceeding 20% CaF2. Read More

• Purden Lake bentonite October 2009

  A look at Purden Lake Resource Corp.'s bentonite deposit in British Columbia, Canada Read More