Project Summary: Integrated Development of Titanium-Zirconium Ores
- Reserves: 10.3 million tons of titanium-zirconium ores, including ilmenite, zircon, rutile, and leucoxene.
- Location: Central Asia.
- Planned annual ore processing: 0.7 million m³.
- Total investment: $40 million USD, seeking debt financing, leasing, and off-take contracts.
- Project timeline: 2025-2026.
- Current status: Mountain part design completed; feasibility study and mining-processing complex (GOK) project underway.
Key Components and Outputs:
- Mining method: Hydraulic erosion with hydrotransport to processing plant.
- Processing includes desliming, classification, magnetic separation, drying, and fine-tuning.
- Products: Ilmenite (TiO2 52-56%), Zircon (ZrO2 65-66.5%), Rutile (TiO2 94-97%), plus leucoxene.
- Annual production estimates: Ilmenite ~31,517 tons, Zircon ~5,765 tons, Rutile ~5,500 tons, Leucoxene ~3,102 tons.
- Product purity and extraction efficiency are high (e.g., Ilmenite TiO2 ~52.5%, 97-98% efficiency).
Facilities Planned:
- Quarry construction (8-12 months).
- Enrichment plant construction (12 months).
- Future deep processing plants for titanium slag, iron ingots, titanium dioxide, oxychloride, and zircon oxide.
Technology and Equipment:
- Utilizes advanced mining and processing equipment sourced from China, USA, UK, Australia, Finland.
- The processing plant is designed as a full-cycle, technologically advanced complex unique globally, incorporating wet magnetic and gravity separation for optimal concentrate quality.
Market:
- Target sales markets include the EU and China.
- Expected project life: 10 to 50 years, depending on technological reserves.
Overall, the project aims to establish a state-of-the-art mining and metallurgical complex for efficient extraction and processing of titanium-zirconium ores, with detailed steps from geological exploration to finished product manufacturing.