Rhovan Vanadium Mine

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This mine is owned and managed by xstrata alloys (xstrata) and its main product is Ferrovanadium, and the production capacity is 22,000k lbs pentoxide and 6,000k kb ferro vanadium.

Xstrata Rhovan operation is situated approximately 30km to the north-west of Brits in the North-West Province. The mineral deposit comprises a vanadiferous, titaniferous magnetite gabbro with the vanadium occurring in the magnetite. The mining is performed by opencast mining methods.

Mining commenced in 1989 and is performed by opencast mining method. The Concentrate Plant at Rhovan was also constructed at the same time and commissioned to supply magnetite concentrate to Union Steel Corporation Limited (“USCO”) in Vereeniging. In 1993/1994, the Processing Plant to process the concentrate to V205 was constructed. The concentrating process was commissioned during May 1994.