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Article: Data on mining published by D.S. Vanvuuren and colleagues.
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- Mining & Minerals
- Article date:
- November 13, 2009
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"Over the last 60 years many different processes were conceived to reduce the cost of titanium produced by the Kroll process. However, success eluded all previous efforts, which were consequently terminated in periods of economic downturn," investigators in Pretoria, South Africa report.
"Recently, the growth in demand for titanium and the high cost of producing the metal again sparked renewed attempts in various parts of the world to replace the antiquated Kroll process with a more efficient route. The different options to produce titanium are reviewed, classified and evaluated in terms of the fundamentals underlying the technologies, and it is shown that the ...