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Titanium mining in Africa has been beset by environmental problems due to the polluting nature of processing rutile, a principal titanium ore.The extraction and refinement of rutile often lead to the release of heavy metals and other contaminants, impacting soil, water, and air quality.
The Xolobeni mine is a proposed titanium mine located in the Wild Coast region of the Eastern Cape of South Africa.The proposed mine has reserves amounting to 348.7 million tonnes of ore grading 5% titanium.
This list of mines in South Africa is subsidiary to the list of mines article and lists working, defunct and future mines in the country and is organised by the primary mineral output. For practical purposes stone, marble and other quarries may be included in this list.
South Africa’s government is facing criticism for its clampdown on illegal mining that cut off food and water to hundreds of miners underground, after at least 78 bodies were pulled from a shaft ...
Richards Bay Minerals (RBM) is a South African mining company. RBM's principal product is titanium dioxide in the form of an 85% pure titanium dioxide slag; the company also produces the higher-purity 95% titanium dioxide product rutile as well as pig iron and zircon.
Don't Let Titanium Become The Curse Of Kwale; Opinion by Sam Wainaina, The East African (Nairobi), 18 January 2001; Titanium mining in Mozambique, from Afrol; Sierra Leone titanium mining overview from Project Underground; Mining in Sierra Leone, Encyclopedia of the Nations; MBendi – Republic of South Africa – Heavy Minerals Mining – page
The death toll from a mining tragedy last week in South Africa that involved an elevator has risen to 13 people after a worker died at a hospital, the mine operator said Monday. Impala Platinum ...
The Amadiba Crisis Committee (ACC) is a social movement based in the Amadiba region of Pondoland in the Eastern Cape, in South Africa. It was formed in 2007 by villagers in and around Xolobeni to fight a proposed titanium mine in their area. [1]