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South Africa
Tormin Mine

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 Location:
360 km N from Cape Town, South Africa

  Address:
PO Box 139
Lutzville
South Africa
8165
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Overview

StageProduction
Mine TypeOpen Pit
Commodities
  • Heavy Minerals
  • Zircon
  • Garnet
  • Ilmenite
  • Rutile
Mining Method
  • Truck & Shovel / Loader
Production Start...
Tormin is one of the highest - grade mineral sands operations in the world.
Latest NewsMRC Obtains High-Grade Drilling Results at De Punt Inland     March 15, 2023


Owners

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CompanyInterestOwnership
Mineral Commodities Ltd 50 % Indirect
Mineral Commodities’s South Africa subsidiary Mineral Sands Resources (Pty) Ltd, which owns the Tormin Mineral Sands Mine since November 2014.

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Deposit Type

  • Mineral sands


Summary:

The western coastal plain of South Africa contains a significant resource of detrital heavy minerals by world standards.

The heavy mineral sand deposits occur in a current active beach environment (eg Tormin mine) as well as in older palaeo-beach raised strandlines found inland (inland strandlines) eg Tronox Namakwa Sands.

Apart from the mid-Jurassic, Cretaceous and Tertiary (Paleogene) sediments along the coast, numerous small fossiliferous, marine and terrestrial deposits of Neogene age outcrop along the coastal zone.

The onshore mineral sands are marine palaeo-terraces “Inland Strands”, aeolian sands and fluvial sediments. These targets were formed during Miocene, Pliocene and Quaternary/Pleistocene coastal transgression (sea move inland) and regression cycles.

The lithological units of the Western Strandline can be described as below:

Aeolian sand – non mineralised
Red Aeolin sand – mineralised
Silcrete Duricrust/ dorbank
Orange Feldspathic Sand – non mineralised
Orange Feldspathic Sand – mineralised
Dorbank – mineralised
Strandline – mineralised
Base pebble beds – mineralised
Schist basement

For purposes of estimation, the lithology has been grouped into the following:
Red Aeolian sand
Silcrete Duricrust/dorbank
Orange Feldspathic Sand
Main Strandline Mineralisation (including the thin mineralised dorbank)
Secondary perched str ........


Mining Methods

  • Truck & Shovel / Loader


Summary:

Tormin Mineral Sands Operation consists of a number of high-grade placer beach and strandline mineral sands deposits hosting some of the richest grades in the world of naturally occurring zircon, ilmenite, rutile, magnetite and garnet.

Current Beaches
Operations first commenced at Tormin in late 2013 at the Current Beaches and over a six year period, the Company has mined nearly five times the Indicated Resource of 2.7 million tonnes.

Since commissioning, mining at Tormin has taken place over a 12 kilometre zone of beach area (“Current Beaches”) directly in front of the existing processing infrastructure.

Northern Beaches
In July 2020, Mineral Commodities was granted an amendment to the existing Mining Right under Section 102 of the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act No. 49 of 2008 (“S102 Mining Right”). Under the amended licence, mining operations can expand to include the higher grade Northern Beaches where a high grade JORC compliant resource of 2.5 million tonnes at 23.5% Total Heavy Mineral (“THM”) in the category of Measured, Indicated and Inferred using a 2% cut-off was reported in May 2020.

The Northern Beaches incorporate ten beaches directly north of and adjoining the Current Beaches at Tormin. These areas unite semi-continuous tenements approximately 23.5km in length, covering an area of 398 hectares of beach sands prospective for zircon, rutile, ilmenite, garnet, leucoxene and magnetite. Like the C ........


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Processing

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Production:
In 2021 Mineral Commodities produced 13,677 dmt of zircon/rutile concentrate wich grades 72.1% of zircon and 19.1% of rutile. In 2021 mineral processing recoveries from the PBCs remained strong and in line with 2020 recoveries.

CommodityUnits202120202019
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Operational Metrics:

Metrics202120202019
Total tonnes mined  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required2,509,978 dmt
Ore tonnes mined  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required2,509,978 dmt
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Tonnes processed  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required2,989,814 dmt
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Reserves at December 31, 2021:
Total Mineral Resources for Tormin Beaches, Northern Beaches, Western Strandline Deposits, and e Eastern Strandline Deposit - 2% THM cut-off grade.

CategoryTonnage CommodityGradeContained Metal
Total Resource 216.3 Mt Heavy Minerals 9.12 % 19.72 Mt

Financials:

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Heavy Mobile Equipment:

Mine Management:

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Staff:

EmployeesYear
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Corporate Filings & Presentations:

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Corporate Presentation 2022
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Annual Report 2017
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News:

NewsDate
MRC Obtains High-Grade Drilling Results at De Punt Inland March 15, 2023

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