Exxaro shuts down furnace

[miningmx.com] — Diversified miner Exxaro said on Monday it will lose 9 000 tonnes per month in slag production after shutting down Furnace 2 at its Kwazulu Natal mineral sands unit following an incident.

The company said in a statement that initial assessments indicated that the incident, which occurred last week, was due to a ‘burn-through on the furnace shell during the metal tap process.’

“(We expect a ) loss of around 9000 tonnes of slag per month and we should be down for 3 months,” Exxaro’s financial director Win de Klerk said in an email to Reuters.

Mineral sands contain titanium minerals and zicorn.