Nov. 24, 2010 - The South African concern, Engineering & Projects Company Limited (E+PC), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Aveng group, has won a contract worth 200 million US dollars from the Irish group Kenmare Resources to expand the Moma heavy sands project, in the northern Mozambican province of Nampula.
Kenmare operates a dredge mine in Moma that extracts titanium and zirconium ores from the heavy sands.
The contract aims to expand the entire project, from the extraction units to processing, so that annual production will reach 1.2 million tones of ilmenite and associated minerals such as rutile and zircon. The current installed capacity at Moma is for 800,000 tonnes a year.
Ilmenite (iron titanium oxide) and rutile (titanium dioxide) are used to make white pigments for paints, paper and plastic. Titanium can be extracted from these ores and used to manufacture metallic parts where light weight and high strength are needed. Zircon (zirconium silicate) is used for abrasive and insulating purposes.
The work on extending the Kenmare mine and processing plant should start, according to Aveng, in the first quarter of 2011.
The latest figures released by Kenmare state that mining production of heavy mineral concentrate increased in the third quarter of this year by 31% to 297,000 tonnes.
Also in the third quarter, the mineral separation plant produced 206,000 tonnes of ilmenite, a 22% increase on the second quarter's production. Zircon output was 11,000 tonnes, a 25% increase and 2,000 tonnes of rutile was produced, a 158% increase.
Kenmare says it shipped 199,000 tonnes of finished products in the third quarter, bringing shipments from January to September to 566,000 tonnes, an increase of 106% compared with the first three quarters of 2009.
Kenmare operates a dredge mine in Moma that extracts titanium and zirconium ores from the heavy sands.
The contract aims to expand the entire project, from the extraction units to processing, so that annual production will reach 1.2 million tones of ilmenite and associated minerals such as rutile and zircon. The current installed capacity at Moma is for 800,000 tonnes a year.
Ilmenite (iron titanium oxide) and rutile (titanium dioxide) are used to make white pigments for paints, paper and plastic. Titanium can be extracted from these ores and used to manufacture metallic parts where light weight and high strength are needed. Zircon (zirconium silicate) is used for abrasive and insulating purposes.
The work on extending the Kenmare mine and processing plant should start, according to Aveng, in the first quarter of 2011.
The latest figures released by Kenmare state that mining production of heavy mineral concentrate increased in the third quarter of this year by 31% to 297,000 tonnes.
Also in the third quarter, the mineral separation plant produced 206,000 tonnes of ilmenite, a 22% increase on the second quarter's production. Zircon output was 11,000 tonnes, a 25% increase and 2,000 tonnes of rutile was produced, a 158% increase.
Kenmare says it shipped 199,000 tonnes of finished products in the third quarter, bringing shipments from January to September to 566,000 tonnes, an increase of 106% compared with the first three quarters of 2009.
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