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Mineral Sands

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Mineral sand deposits contain a concentrated amount of economically important minerals known as ‘heavy minerals’, which are much heavier than common sand minerals such as quartz. Deposits contain zircon, rutile, leucoxene, ilmenite, monazite, and xenotime.

Mineral sands have a number of uses including in paints, paper, plastics, sunscreens, tiles and joint replacements.

China is the biggest consumer of mineral sands, with Australia being a major producer accounting for 32% of the world’s share of ilmenite (titanium) resources, 62% of rutile resources, and 68% of global zircon resources.

The biggest producers in Australia include Iluka Resources (ILU) and Rio Tinto (RIO).

There is no widely used public exchange for mineral sands as the spot price is determined by discrete transactions between buyers and sellers. We recommend that investors show caution when analysing spot prices as it is an opaque market.

List of Companies

Company Price Chg % Chg High Low Volume Mkt Cap 1 Year
ADC
Acdc Metals Ltd
$0.041 0.00 0.00% $0.00 $0.00 - $3.07M -43.06%
ASE
Astute Metals NL
$0.021 0.00 0.00% $0.00 $0.00 - $12.98M -31.97%
CHW
Chilwa Minerals Ltd
$0.65 0.00 0.00% $0.00 $0.00 - $35.06M +150.00%
CXU
Cauldron Energy Ltd
$0.008 0.00 0.00% $0.008 $0.008 10,994 $11.69M -79.49%
DME
Dome Gold Mines Ltd
$0.18 0.00 0.00% $0.18 $0.18 1 $71.36M 0.00%
DRR
Deterra Royalties Ltd
$3.51 +0.13 +3.85% $3.52 $3.37 1,061,688 $1.86B -27.03%
DRX
Diatreme Resources Ltd
$0.022 0.00 0.00% $0.022 $0.022 7 $110.18M +15.79%
HVY
Heavy Minerals Ltd
$0.22 0.00 0.00% $0.225 $0.22 17,502 $14.87M +238.46%
ILU
Iluka Resources Ltd
$3.77 +0.20 +5.60% $3.79 $3.62 6,029,631 $1.62B -47.93%
IND
Industrial Minerals Ltd
$0.16 0.00 0.00% $0.00 $0.00 - $12.85M -5.88%
LRS
Latin Resources Ltd
$0.165 0.00 0.00% $0.00 $0.00 - $477.66M +3.13%
MRC
Mineral Commodities Ltd
$0.026 0.00 0.00% $0.00 $0.00 - $25.6M 0.00%
SER
Strategic Energy Resources Ltd
$0.007 -0.001 -7.14% $0.007 $0.007 40,000 $4.36M -35.00%
SFX
Sheffield Resources Ltd
$0.18 +0.005 +2.86% $0.185 $0.18 25,476 $71.06M -67.27%
SUV
Suvo Strategic Minerals Ltd
$0.031 0.00 0.00% $0.00 $0.00 - $31.29M -26.19%