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Mukanda/Buhoro-Nyabikere

Prospect in Burundi with commodities Vanadium, Nickel
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Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10024917
MRDS ID ISM0669
Record type Site
Current site name Mukanda/Buhoro-Nyabikere

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: 30.00129, -3.39951 (WGS84)
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Geographic areas

Country
Burundi

Comments on the location information

  • 15 KM NORTH OF QUILON. THE DEPOSIT MINED BY KMML EXTENDS OVER 23 KM LENGTH BETWEEN KAYAMKULAM AND NEENDAKARA, SOUTH INDIA.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Vanadium Primary
Nickel Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • TITANIUM
  • VANADIUM

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Gabbro

Nearby scientific data

(1) 30.00129, -3.39951
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Comments on the geologic information

  • ; ILMN + SLMT + RUTL + ZRCN + LCXN + MNZT (+ QRTZ); DEPOSIT IS A BARRIER BEACH EXTENDING PARALLEL TO THE OLD SHORELINE. THE BEACH SANDS CONTAIN 80% HEAVY MINERALS, THE BEACH DUNES CONTAIN 40-50% HEAVY MINERALS. THE HEAVY MINERAL FRACTION CONTAINS 68% ILMN, 7% RUTL, 6% ZRCN, 2% LCXN, 1% MNZT AND 14% SLMT ILMENITE TYPICALLY CONTAINS 59.8% TIO2, RUTILE 93.04% TIO2. OLD BEACH SANDS (APPROX 80% HM) BURIED UNDER THE DUNES.
  • ; TITANOMAGNETITE; A 100 KM-LONG BELT OF VANADIUM-BEARING ROCK RUNS THROUGH THE COUNTRY IN A N-S DIRECTION 30M-THICK SOUTH-DIPPING (20-30) MASSIVE AND DISSEMINATED OREBODIES TO A DEPTH OF 50 M OVER STRIKE LENGTH IN EXCESS OF 550 M.

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Kibara-Burundi-Karagwe-Ankole Metallogenic Zone

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Rataruuki Oy, Undp

Comments on the production information

  • IRE - 130 000 TPA ILMENITE, 6000 TPA RUTILE, KMML - 27 000 TPA ILMENITE, 2400 TPA RUTILE DHRANGADHRA CHEMICAL - 25 000 TPA SYNTHETIC RUTILE 9FROM IRE ILMENITE) (ADAMS 84) KMML - BY LATE 1980'S - 100 000 TPA ILMENITE, 10 000 TPA RUTILE, 50 000 TPA OF THIS ILMENITE WILL GO TO PRODUCE 30 000 TPA OF SYNTHETIC RUTILE. A 22 000 TPA CHLORIDE ROUTE TIO2 PLANT ALSO PLANNED.FIGURES ARE COMBINATIONS OF APPROX ANNUAL PRODUCTION FROM KMML PLANT (22 000 TPA ILMN, 2200 TPA RUTL) (INDUST. MINS 83) AND IRE PLANT (190 000 TPA ILMN, 6000 TPA RUTL) (H & N INVESTIMENTS) FIGURES REFER TO PRODUCTION FROM CURRENTLY OPERATING COMPANIES ONLY. THEY ARE DERIVED FROM ASSUMING THE ABOVE ANNUAL PRODUCTION FIGURES OVER THE 15 YEARS OF OPERATION AT IRE PLANT AND 12 YEARS AT KMML PLANT. OTHER FOREIGN OWNED COMPANIES OPERATED PRIOR TO 1969. A 200 000 TPA ILMENITE PLANT WAS SHUT DOWN IN 1959. IN 1940 INDIA SUPPLIED OVER 70% OF WORLD ILMENITE REQUIREMENTS (330 000 TONNES) MUCH OF WHICH PROBABLY CAME FROM CHAVARA.

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • ALSO 1 MIL TON OF MONAZITE

Comments on development

  • NON-GEOLOGIC CONSTRAINTS ON DEVELOPMENT OR EXPANSION IN 1-5 YRS. (). DEVELOPMENT(KMML HAS RECENTLY EMBARKED ON AN EXPANSION OF ITS CHAVARA FACILITIES AS LISTED ABOVE.); ILMENITE HAS VERY HIGH CR2O3 CONTENT (O.17% OF NORMAL 0.03%) WHICH IS UNDESIRABLE AS IT IMPORTS A GREEN COLOUR TO PIGMENT. IRE SELLS ALL ITS RUTILE ON THE HOME MARKET. IT SELLS ILMENITE TO DHRANGADHRA CHEMICAL WORKS LTD FOR ITS SYNTHETIC RUTILE PLANT AT SAHUPURAM, NEAR TIRUNELEVELI, 120 KM E OF QUILON, BUT MOST IS AVAILABLE FORG EXPORT OVERSEAS. KMML SELLS ITS ENTIRE PRODUCTION DOMESTICALLY. DHRANGADHRA CHEMICAL SELLS MOST (IF NOT ALL) OF ITS SYNTHETIC RUTILE TO US. STATE GOVERNMENT CURRENTLY OPERATES A 14 000 TPA TIO2 AT TRIVANDRUM, KERALA STATE.
  • NON-GEOLOGIC CONSTRAINTS ON DEVELOPMENT OR EXPANSION IN 1-5 YRS. ().

Reference information

Links to other databases

Agency Database name Acronym Record ID Notes
USGS Mineral Resources Data System MRDS ISM0669
USGS International Strategic Minerals Inventory ISMI VA032

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MINING ANNUAL REVIEW, 1983

  • Deposit

    MINING MAGAZINE, DECEMBER 1982

  • Deposit

    MINING ANNUAL REVIEW, 1984

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit First Production Year: COASTAL BEACH1932; IRE SINCE 1969; KMML SINCE 2970.
Deposit THIS RECORD WAS COMPILED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL STRATEGIC MINERALS INVENTORY. THE DATA WERE USED IN PREPARATION OF THE USGS CIRCULAR 930 SERIES OF REPORTS. MINERAL RESOURCE CATEGORIES AND CODES HEREIN ARE FROM THE INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM RECOMMENDED BY THE UNITED NATIONS GROUP OF EXPERTS ON DEFINITIONS AND TERMINOLOGY FOR MINERAL RESOURCES. (SEE NATIONAL RESOURCES FORUM, V. 4, NO. 3, P. 307-313.). SURFACE ZERO SOME ILMENITE TO SYNTHETIC RUTILE
Deposit THIS RECORD WAS COMPILED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL STRATEGIC MINERALS INVENTORY. THE DATA WERE USED IN PREPARATION OF THE USGS CIRCULAR 930 SERIES OF REPORTS. MINERAL RESOURCE CATEGORIES AND CODES HEREIN ARE FROM THE INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM RECOMMENDED BY THE UNITED NATIONS GROUP OF EXPERTS ON DEFINITIONS AND TERMINOLOGY FOR MINERAL RESOURCES. (SEE NATIONAL RESOURCES FORUM, V. 4, NO. 3, P. 307-313.).

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1986 Rossouw, Cindy Geological Survey of South Africa