zircon
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Analyst Matthew Hope says the Chinese market is weak right now, and one of Iluka’s competitors has reduced its zircon price for China.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2025
Commissioning of the Balranald mine in New South Wales, which aims to produce some 50,000 tons of zircon annually along with other mineral sands, is underway.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2025
For decades, Iluka has been mining zircon in Australia - a key ingredient in ceramics, and titanium dioxide used in the pigmentation of paint, plastics and paper.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2025
The study analysed a 4.45 billion-year-old zircon grain from the famous Martian meteorite NWA7034, also known as Black Beauty, and found geochemical 'fingerprints' of water-rich fluids.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 22, 2024
Bournonite; apatite on muscovite; natural zircon in a spray of colors; dozens more minerals he cannot name.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
