For our country reserves of rare metals, pay more attention to the company's research and development level. The rare metal
zirconium, for example, is mainly concentrated in coastal areas such as hainan, and the total reserves are small. However, nuclear grade zirconium is one of the key materials in nuclear power plant core structure.
The domestic big zirconium industry enterprise has the eastern zirconium industry, which has the whole industrial chain business from the upstream zirconium sand to the downstream variety, is the present domestic industrial chain * complete zirconium product manufacturer. And its zirconium raw material also imports 70%.Therefore, the deep processing and high value-added utilization of zirconium is the best choice.
Currently, the company is investing and constructing three projects with an annual output of 20,000 tons of high purity zirconium chloride oxide, 650 tons of nuclear grade zirconium sponge and 350 tons of nuclear grade zirconium sponge, with a total investment of 794 million yuan.
As of the end of June this year, the company has invested 539 million yuan, the production of these projects will further enrich the company's zirconium product line.
After the successful acquisition of the mingrui zirconium mine in south Australia in 2011, Oriental zirconium industry has carried out environmental protection and safety renovation.
In May 2013, the mining project was officially put into production, which is a chinese-controlled mining project successfully put into production by Australian *. It will increase the production of our own zircon sand by about 50%, from 40,000 tons to 60,000 tons annually, and break the monopoly of international enterprises on our zircon sand market.
On October 10, Oriental zirconium industry received a notice from mingrui zirconium industry company, and was informed that the resource accounting work of the newly discovered ore body was completed. The exploration in south Australia's Murray basin confirmed that a large number of new heavy ore resources, a combined total of about 99.28 million tons of new resources, including Australian JORC standard to control the level of 73.36 million tons, speculated that the level of 25.92 million tons, by the analysis of new the mineralogy of the ore bodies show that the new ore mineral reserves of about 220000 tons of zirconium, 210000 tons of high titanium mineral, 520000 tons of ilmenite resources, etc.
