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Saldanha Bay. $2,1bn titanium, zirconium project decision pending.

The results of a prefeasibility study on the proposed construction of an integrated titanium and zirconium minerals beneficiation complex in South Africa are under review. Investor consortium Rare Metals Industries (RMI) shareholders and partners will decide on whether to continue with the estimated R15,3-billion ($2,1-billion) project over the next three months. The shareholders and partners in the...

West Coast. Exxaro expects first output from wind farm in 2012

JSE-listed Exxaro Resources, which is investigating a range of renewable energy projects, said it could start generating wind power at its Brand-se-Baai project, on South Africa’s West Coast, within a year and a half, or mid-2012. Energy growth division business developer Chikoma Kazunga said on Wednesday that the project was in the prefeasibility stage and that the company had only started...

Exxaro deliver more coking coal to ArcelorMittal

Black economically empow
ered mining major Exxaro 
reported at the presentation of results for the six months ended June 30 that increased demand from steel producer ArcelorMittal South Africa had seen its supply of coking coal into the 
domestic market grow by 29%. Exxaro financial director Wim de Klerk reported that, because of industrial action by Transnet Freight Rail employees and com-
plications...

Exxaro aims to sell green power into national grid. Saldanha Bay

MINING group Exxaro was pursuing plans to generate up to 300MW of renewable energy and had already started installing the measuring equipment, a senior manager in the company said on Friday. Mines depend on a reliable electricity supply in order to operate and expand but Eskom’s supply has been constrained since January 2008, when power rationing began. However, it seems that Exxaro also has...