Zirconium

From: Mining Engineering | Date: June 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Commercial forms of zirconium concentrates include zircon (ZrSiO^sub 4^) and baddeleyite (ZrO^sub 2^). Zircon is the most important commercially.

Production

Nearly all of the world's zircon is produced as a byproduct or a coproduct of titanium mineral sands mining. This makes zircon production difficult to tailor to market demand. Despite this, supply and demand were almost in balance during 2002.

World production of zircon in 2002 was about 1.1 Mt (1.2 million st). South Africa surpassed Australia as the largest producer of zircon. Australia and the United States were the second and third ...

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