Kalagadi Manganese, in which Arcelor Mittal has a 50% stake, plans to produce sintered manganese and high grade ferro-manganese by the end of 2010.
"We want to have all the plants, sinster and smelter going by 2010. The mine shaft is to be completed towards the end of the second quarter of 2010," said David Wellbeloved Kalagadi's technical director. He was speaking at Metal Bulletins Ferroalloys conference in Johannesburg.
The R4.3bn project is in bankable feasibility study stage and work on the sinking of a vertical shaft on the company's Umtu farm, one of three farms, in the Kalahari in the Northern Cape is about to begin. Kalagadi has a number of prospects containing, 9.8 million tonnes of manganese ore, said Mr Wellbeloved.
Source: MiningMx
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