Mining Conflict in Madagascar
With a lifespan of 50 years, it has been producing ilmenite, rutile and zircon since 2009 having started exploration in the late 1980s. The operation valued at US$930 million is one of two major foreign capital investments in the country with 80% ownership by Anglo-Australian mining giant RioTinto and 20% by the government of Madagascar.
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Toliara Mineral Sands Project, Madagascar
The Toliara mine is located approximately 45km north of Toliara and 640km south-west of Antananarivo, Madagascar. The site lies within the mining lease PDE 37242, which covers an area of approximately 125.4km². ... The ilmenite circuit will employ magnetic and electrostatic separation techniques to produce a non-magnetic stream, which will be ...
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Heavy Mineral Processing at Richards Bay Minerals
Dredge mining has been used to exploit such deposits over the decades as it is the most economical and feasible mining method applicable for such mineral accumulations throughout the world.
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Fears of radionuclide-enriched water pollution as Madagascar mining
QMM is mining ilmenite, an industrial whitener, from coastal sands of southern Madagascar. Situated alongside an estuary along the southeast coastline, the mine is operating in a sensitive environment with highly variable weather conditions, including cyclones and seasonal flooding, and a volatile water table.
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Impact on Regional Water Quality of the Rio Tinto QMM …
The Rio Tinto QMM ilmenite mine on the coast of southeastern Madagascar generates radionuclide-enriched water in mining basins by extracting ilmenite from mineral sands and …
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Implications of a Wastewater Discharge Monitoring Report …
Ambavarano in Anosy region on the coastline of the southeastern tip of Madagascar (see Figs. 1, 2, 3a-b and 4). The mine is owned by QIT Madagascar Mining S.A. (QMM), which is a subsidiary of Rio Tinto that is owned 80% by Rio Tinto and 20% by the Government of Madagascar. The QMM mine extracts ilmenite and Zirsill (a blended mixture of the ...
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Toliara sand mining for metals, Ranobe, Madagascar
The Ranobe Mine is projected to produce 407.000 tonnes per annum (hereafter tpa) of ilmenite and 44,000 tpa of zircon rich concentrate over an initial 21 year mine life. This first phase of development would utilise around 17% of the 959 million tonnes of mineral resource defined at Ranobe. The mining area will be cleared of all vegetation.
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(PDF) Inverting the impacts: Mining, conservation and …
The Journal of Peasant Studies Vol. 39, No. 2, April 2012, 447–477 Inverting the impacts: Mining, conservation and sustainability claims near the Rio Tinto/QMM ilmenite mine in Southeast Madagascar Downloaded by [Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam] at 15:19 10 May 2013 Caroline Seagle This paper traces a genealogy of land access and legitimization ...
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ilmenite mine in Southeast Madagascar sustainability claims …
Ilmenite mining takes place through the creation of artificial freshwater lakes and the use of a wet dredge to separate the desired mineral from other trace minerals (Harbinson 2007, 7).
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Titanium Sands robust scoping study shows potential for large …
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Tall tales and tailings
The fourth largest mining company in the world, Rio Tinto, claims to be a leader in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and positions its QMM mine in Southeast Madagascar as a model for the industry. But is this story all it seems? Extracting ilmenite from 6,000 hectares of mineral rich sands along unique littoral forests, QMM claims it has rehabilitated over 1000 …
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Acquisition of a second dredge at QMM
Until 2021, QMM owned just two production units: One dredge 'Fasimainty' and the dry mining of a high grade of sand, where the floor is too high for a dredge. This paper details the second …
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Toliara sand mining for metals, Ranobe, Madagascar
The Ranobe sands deposit is in the north of the Port of Toliara in south-west Madagascar, where a large mineral sands resource containing the valuable minerals, specifically ilmenite (for titanium), rutile, zircon and …
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Impact on Regional Water Quality of the Rio Tinto QMM …
radionuclide-enriched water in mining basins by extracting ilmenite from mineral sands and concentrating monazite in the mine tailings. The mine process water is released into a wetland ... separating the economic minerals using a floating dredge plant (QIT Madagascar Minerals, 4 2015; Randriantseheno et al., 2015). Extraction of the economic ...
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Rio Tinto acknowledges encroachment onto vulnerable Madagascar …
Rio Tinto has acknowledged that one of its Madagascar mines encroached onto vulnerable land and threatens to pollute a body of water. ... (QMM), which has conducted ilmenite mining operations on the shores of lakes Besaroy and Ambavarano since 2009. ... temporary and transient and typically work is operational for no longer than three to four ...
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Wärtsilä signs Decarbonisation Agreement for Madagascan …
The continued O&M agreement covers QMM's 24 MW engine power plant located at the company's ilmenite mineral sands mine at Fort Dauphin in south-eastern Madagascar. …
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Florida Mining Operation Uses Bucketwheel Dredge to Dig Ore
The dredge "Rocky Ford" digs mineral-bearing sand containing rutile, zircon, and ilmenite. The dredge uses a 22-inch pump. A staff of 108 runs the dredge, the wet mill just behind the dredge, the dry mill on the company complex, and the office. The dredge operates three eight-hour shifts per day, 363 days a year.
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2009 – Mining begins at controversial QMM mine
QIT Minerals Madagascar (QMM), a local subsidiary of which Rio Tinto is 80% owner, starts mining for ilmenite at Mandena in southern Madagascar. The Anosy region where the mine is located is "one of the most ecologically diverse regions of Madagascar, but also one of the poorest and most isolated." The construction of the […]
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Dredging operation at RBM (Anthony Bannister)
Process RBM employs a dredge mining operation, pioneered in Holland and Australia, to extract and separate the heavy minerals -ilmenite, rutile, and zircon (about 5% in volume) -from the sand, as ...
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qmm ilmenite mining equipment
dredge mining in madagascar for ilmenite | Solution for ore mining QMM Ilmenite Mining Project, Madagascar. Fluor, …
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Rio Tinto/QMM Ilmenite Mine, Madagascar | EJAtlas
QMM, 80% owned by Rio Tinto and 20% by Government of Madagascar, built a mineral sands mining operation near Taolagnaro supported by the World Bank. QMM extracts ilmenite and zircon.
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Major Mines & Projects | Fort Dauphin (QMM) Operation
On August 23, 2023, Rio Tinto and the Government of Madagascar reached agreement on the future fiscal arrangements for QIT Madagascar Minerals (QMM) and renewed their long-term partnership for the sustainable operation of the QMM mine in Fort Dauphin, Madagascar.
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Step-by-step Dredge Mining Process
DuPont Mineral Products – Dredge Mining Process. April 30, 2007. ... The heavier minerals, e.g., ilmenite, zircon, and staurolite, tend to concentrate nearer the inside of the spirals and are subsequently drawn off at selected points. The different streams of various concentrations are then routed back for additional retreatment or to ...
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The Ecologists and the Mine | Scientific American
Mining company Rio Tinto extracts the mineral ilmenite in southeastern Madagascar's coastal forest—a severely threatened ecosystem. …
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Acquisition of a second dredge at QMM
The Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy 37 Acquisition of a second dredge at QMM S.P. Nirintso Rio Tinto QMM, Madagascar QIT Madagascar Minerals (QMM) is located in south-eastern Madagascar, in the Fort-Dauphin region, where ilmenite, monazite and zirsil are produced in Mandena. The
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Evaluation of a New Water-Quality Study of the Rio Tinto …
The Rio Tinto QMM ilmenite mine on the coast of southeastern Madagascar generates radionuclide-enriched water in mining basins by extracting ilmenite from mineral sands and …
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Moma Titanium Minerals Mine, Mozambique
43Mt of ilmenite, 2.9Mt of zircon, and 95Mt of rutile (2019 estimate) Expand. The Moma titanium minerals mine is located in Nampula province of Mozambique. Image courtesy of Kenmare Resources plc. ... Titanium minerals at Moma are mined through dredging. The mining is carried out at Namalope flats, which was the first deposit mined. The dredges ...
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REFILE-Rio Tinto starts ilmenite production in Madagascar
A subsidiary of UK-based multinational Rio Tinto
qmm ilmenite mining equipment | Mining & Quarry Plant
QMM Ilmenite Mining Project, Madagascar. QMM Ilmenite Mine ? EPC . Client: QMM. Location: Fort Dauphin, Madagascar. ... Fluor, as part of a joint venture, provided EPCM services for the mineral sands dredge mining and processing facility in …
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2009 – Mining begins at controversial QMM mine
QIT Minerals Madagascar (QMM), a local subsidiary of which Rio Tinto is 80% owner, starts mining for ilmenite at Mandena in southern Madagascar. The Anosy region …
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