10 Feb 2009 in National Assembly:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, other economically viable minerals that are exploited in smaller quantities and are widely dispersed in their occurrences are the following; barytes, kaoline, lead, vermiculite, garnets and kyanite. Titanium bearing heavy sands at Coast Province have been found to be economically viable and will be mined in large quantities once mining starts. The expected annual production will be 330,000 metric tonnes of Iliminite, 75,000 metric tonnes of rutile and 37,000 metric tonnes of zircon. However, it should be noted that most, if not all, of mineral occurrences in the country have not been quantified due to budgetary ...
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