Starting in 2009, we worked closely with the QMM Environment team led by Johny Rabenantoandro and Manon Vincelette, to deliver a workplan and quantitative analysis for Rio Tinto Madagascar to plan biodiversity mitigation and offset requirements over the project life cycle.

The QMM ilmenite project (a joint venture between Rio Tinto and the Government of Madagascar) is governed by the “Convention d’Établissement” and mining companies whose investment is more than 50 billion MGA (USD 16 million) are subject to the “Loi sur les Grands Investissements Miniers”.

Rio Tinto’s subsidiary, Rio Tinto Iron & Titanium, has begun production of ilmenite at its QMM mineral sands operation at Fort Dauphin in Madagascar. The development (owned 80 per cent by Rio Tinto and 20 per cent by the Madagascar government) began as an exploration project in the 1980s and is the second largest investment on the island.

QIT Madagascar Minerals (QMM), which is 80% owned by Rio Tinto and 20% owned by the Government of Madagascar, has built a mineral sands mining operation near Taolagnaro at the south-east tip of Madagascar, supported by the World Bank.

carried out near the Rio Tinto/QMM ilmenite (titanium dioxide, an industrial whitener) mine in Fort Dauphin, Southeast Madagascar, 1 it examines the recent convergence of multinational mining and biodiversity conservation in Madagascar.

QIT Madagascar Minerals (QMM) is a mining company located in the Fort-Dauphin region of southeastern Madagascar. After roughly 20 years of exploration, negotiations, and preliminary work, the company began production of the titanium dioxide ore, ilmenite.

Jul 08, 2009· Australia was the world's largest ilmenite ore producer in 2011, with about 1.3 million tonnes of production, followed by South Africa, Canada, Mozambique, India, China, Vietnam, Ukraine, Norway, Madagascar and United States.

Yet, the QIT Madagascar Minerals (QMM) project (80% owned by Rio Tinto, 20% by the Madagascan government) is wrecking lives and livelihoods and doing irreparable damage to the area’s rich and unique natural environment.

Qit Madagascar Minerals (QMM) est THE Entreprise ici à Fort Dauphin. Elle est détenue à 80 % par RIO Tinto, groupe multinational (australo-britannique) dans le secteur minier dont le siège est basé au Royaume-Uni et à 20% par l'Etat malgache.

Aiming to export an initial 750,000 tonnes of ilmenite per year and 2.25m tonnes eventually, costs were originally estimated at $780m, Guy Larin, vice‐president and country director of QIT Madagascar Minerals ( QMM ) told Reuters .

Jan 11, 2013· They blocked workers of Rio Tinto QIT Madagascar Minerals (QMM) inside the site, and though some were evacuated on Thursday, chief executive Nyfanja Rakotomalala is still trapped inside with 178 ...

Aug 25, 2016· Addition of a partic Ilmenite processing into its constituents, sources of Ilmenite is a titanium (TiO2) bearing mineral that, directly or indirectly, …

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Rio Tinto/QMM intends to extract ilmenite and zircon from heavy mineral sands over an area of about 6,000 hectares along the coast over the next 40 years. The ilmenite mined in Madagascar contains 60% titanium dioxide making it higher quality than most other global sources.

Madagascar has some of the richest mineral sands deposits in the world, and QMM has secured the rights to a number of these. The project comprises dredge mining, floating concentrator, and a land-based minerals separation plant to extract titanium minerals, predominantly ilmenite and other valuable heavy minerals, from sand dunes.

Tinto ilmenite mine in southeastern Madagascar, run by QIT Madagascar Minerals (Rio Tinto QMM), has been chosen as a pilot site to test the tools designed to achieve and quantify NPI on biodiversity.

Goondicum Ilmenite Mine , the project is estimated to contain indicated mineral resources of 269 million tonnes (Mt) of ilmenite, , The major mining fleet and . 【Live Chat】 Rio Tinto/QMM Ilmenite Mine, Madagascar | EJAtlas

The mineral sands industry is involved in the mining and processing of zircon and titanium dioxide ... (from QMM ilmenite) TiO2: 11% Zr: - QMM (Rio Tinto) Madagascar Sand, dredge Yes – slag at ... In 2012 around 1.3 million tonnes of zircon was produced globally. In the majority of mineral sands deposits, zircon is ...

2012 Minerals Yearbook U.S. Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey MADAGASCAR May 2015. MADAGASCAR—2012 27.1 The Mineral indusTry of Madagascar By Thomas R. Yager In 2012, Madagascar played a significant role in the world’s ... Madagascar. In the first 11 months of 2012, QMM exported nearly 584,000 t of ilmenite to Canada for ...

Australia was the world's largest ilmenite ore producer in 2011, with about 1.3 million tonnes of production, followed by South Africa, Canada, Mozambique, India, China, Vietnam, Ukraine, Norway, Madagascar and United States.

QIT Madagascar Minerals (QMM) is a mining company located in the Fort-Dauphin region of southeastern Madagascar. After roughly 20 years of exploration, negotiations, and preliminary work, the company began production of the titanium dioxide ore, ilmenite .

QMM plans to extract ilmenite and zircon from heavy mineral sands over an area of about 6,000 hectares along the coast during the next 40 years. Wuhan Iron & Steel Co (WISCO): China’s third-largest steelmaker started has been exploring and apprising iron ore deposits in in Madagascar…

Seagle, C., 2012.Inverting the impacts: Mining, conservation and sustainability claims near the Rio Tinto/QMM ilmenite mine in Southeast Madagascar. The Journal of …

QIT Madagascar Minerals (QMM) owns and operates a mineral sands mining project near Fort Dauphin on the south-eastern tip of Madagascar. QMM is 80% owned by Rio Tinto and 20% owned by the Government of Madagascar. QMM plans to extract ilmenite and …

Managed by the Anglo-Australian mineral resources company Rio Tinto Iron, QMM was formed to evaluate large mineral sand deposits in the south east of Madagascar. First production from the Fort Dauphin project is expected in late 2008 and the initial capacity will be 750,000 tonnes per year of ilmenite.

3 In 2005 a subsidiary of the Rio Tinto mining company – QIT Madagascar Mining S.A. (QMM) – was granted approval by the Government of Madagascar (GoM) to go ahead with an ilmenite …

First ilmenite production from this operation began in late 2008 and the initial capacity will be 750,000 tonnes per year. QMM is part of Rio Tinto Minerals, Rio Tinto's marketing division specialising in industrial minerals borates, titanium dioxide, talc and salt.

Jan 15, 2009· The QMM project is part of an incipient mining boom in Madagascar, where most people live on less than $2 a day. Set to produce nickel, cobalt, bauxite and ilmenite…

2 MINERAL SANDS INDUSTRY INFORMATION ILUKA RESOURCES LIMITED, MAY 2015 THE MINERAL SANDS INDUSTRY – OVERVIEW Industry Flow Chart The mineral sands industry involves the mining and processing of zircon and titanium dioxide products (ilmenite,

While the initial output would be lower, O’Brien expects the mine to produce 750,000 tonnes of ilmenite by 2011-2012, at the end of the first phase of the project, and eventually reach an output ...

Jan 12, 2013· Madagascar forces free 200 Rio Tinto hostages Madagascan troops and police free nearly 200 Rio Tinto employees, including the country's chief executive, which they had trapped in a mining compound.

In country research by the INSTN (National Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology), reports that 23 million tonnes of heavy metal concentrate are processed by QMM to deliver approx. 750,000 tonnes of ilmenite annually, over a projected 40-year operation.