It looks like the surface of an alien planet.

The extractor’s part-rusting mechanical arm winds out over the frozen ground, over a sprawling lunar landscape of unnatural colors. The mining of titanium has a greater urgency than ever, here in ...

Brazil’s ilmenite reserves are 43 million metric tons, 4th largest in the world. But despite such expansive titanium reserves, Brazil’s titanium mining is limited. For instance, the country mined only ...

The Moma mine contains deposits of heavy minerals that include the titanium minerals ilmenite and rutile, as well as the zirconium silicate mineral, zircon. Mining is principally undertaken using ...

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