Steps being taken to add value to manganese waste placed on tailings dams may result in an announcement early in the New Year regarding the turning of that waste into a ferromanganese product, African Rainbow Minerals (ARM) CE Ferrous Division Andre Joubert has revealed. While a good market remains for the export of high-grade quality manganese lumpy ore, the fines and slimes washed out of that ore – which represents about 15% of the total tonnage produced – is currently not sold, but put on the tailings facility, and work has now begun in that area of waste, Joubert sadi in response to chairperson Bernard Swanepoel at teh London Indaba.
