Inverting the impacts: Mining, conservation and sustainability claims near the Rio Tinto/QMM ilmenite mine in Southeast Madagascar. / Seagle, C.W. In: Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol. 39, No. 2, 2012, p. 447-477. Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › …
QIT Madagascar Minerals is a mining company and a subsidiary of Rio Tinto, a global mining group. The company operates a mineral sands project in southeastern Madagascar, where it produces ilmenite, zircon, and rutile. These minerals are used in various applications, including pigments, ceramics, and electronics.
Mining major Rio Tinto and the Madagascar Government have signed an agreement on future fiscal arrangements for long-term and sustainable operations at the QIT Madagascar Minerals (QMM) mine in Fort Dauphin.
Phase 1 of Ehoala Solar Park has been inaugurated, a renewable energy project that will help decarbonise QIT Madagascar Minerals' (QMM's) ilmenite mine in Fort-Dauphin, and provide …
Rio Tinto Minerals Chief Executive Sinead Kaufman said: " With this flagship project, QMM is leading the way at Rio Tinto and in Madagascar in utilizing renewable energy to power mining ...
Madagascar - In line with commitments made last July, Rio Tinto QIT Madagascar Minerals (QMM) and its partner Crossboundary Energy (CBE) today laid the foundation stone for the solar and wind power generation project that will power the operations of the QMM ilmenite mine in Fort Dauphin, southern Madagascar. The ceremony took place in the Ehoala Park …
Phase 1 of Ehoala Solar Park has been inaugurated, a renewable energy project that will help decarbonise QIT Madagascar Minerals' (QMM's) ilmenite mine in Fort-Dauphin, and provide jobs and skills development opportunities for the local community. The first phase of the renewable energy project comprises 14,640 solar panels.
Linklaters has advised Rio Tinto, the second largest mining company in the world, on the renewal of its partnership with the government of Madagascar regarding the QMM ilmenite mining project in Fort Dauphin, a project worth more than $1.2Bn of current investment and the second largest private investment in the country. These arrangements aim at ensuring the sustainable …
3D modelling technology is rapidly becoming a vital component of mining projects. Chris Lo looks at how infrastructure consultants are utilising this technology to increase efficiency and minimise risk. ... There is no better demonstration of this than Rio Tinto's QMM ilmenite project in Fort Dauphin, Madagascar, which began its 20-year ...
FORT DAUPHIN, Madagascar – In accordance with the commitments made last July, Rio Tinto QIT Madagascar Minerals (QMM) and its partner Crossboundary Energy (CBE) today laid the foundation stone for the solar and wind power plant project that will supply the QMM ilmenite mine operations in Fort Dauphin, in southern Madagascar. The ceremony took …
Rio Tinto (ASX: RIO) announced Wednesday it has reached an agreement with the government of Madagascar on future fiscal arrangements for QIT Madagascar Minerals (QMM) and renewed their...
In accordance with the commitments made last July, Rio Tinto QIT Madagascar Minerals (QMM) and its partner, CrossBoundary Energy (CBE), have laid the foundation stone for the solar and wind power plant project that will supply the QMM ilmenite mine operations in Fort Dauphin, southern Madagascar.
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Rio Tinto has signed a power purchasing agreement for a new renewable energy plant to power the operations of its QMM ilmenite mine in Fort Dauphin, Southern Madagascar. This project, which uses solar and wind energy, will significantly contribute towards Rio Tinto's operations in Madagascar achieving its carbon neutral objective by 2023, it ...
The Ilmenite project is the result of the conclusion of the Convention of Establishment between the Malagasy State represented by OMNIS and Titane Inc in 1998 following which the company Qit Madagascar Minerals S.A. (QMM S.A) was founded. The latter owns 80% of the share capital while OMNIS is a 20% shareholder. QMM S.A is one of the largest mining investors in …
Rio Tinto has signed an agreement with the Madagascar government on the future fiscal arrangements for their QIT Madagascar Minerals (QMM) joint venture (JV). The parties have also renewed their long-term …
Mining major Rio Tinto and the Madagascar Government have signed an agreement on future fiscal arrangements for long-term and sustainable operations at the QIT Madagascar Minerals (QMM) mine in Fort Dauphin.
QMM extracts ilmenite – an industrial whitener – from mineral sands near the town of Taolagnaro. QMM is 80% owned by Rio Tinto and 20% owned by the Madagascar government.
QMM will replace the majority of the power it currently supplies to the town of Fort Dauphin and the community of around 80,000 people with renewables. The renewable energy …
The mine project got the 'go-ahead' from Rio Tinto in August 2005. Construction started in January 2006. According to PANOS LONDON, the Rio Tinto ilmenite mine in the Taolagnaro area of southern Madagascar is the first of a number of mining projects planned for Madagascar with the support of the WORLD BANK.
Rio Tinto announced on 26 July that it has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with CrossBoundary Energy for the development of a renewable hybrid project to supply its QIT Madagascar Minerals' (QMM) …
Rio Tinto has signed a power purchasing agreement for a new renewable energy plant to power the operations of its QMM ilmenite mine in Fort Dauphin, Southern Madagascar. This project, which uses solar and wind energy, will significantly contribute towards Rio Tinto's operations in Madagascar achieving its carbon neutral objective by 2023, it ...
near the city of Fort Dauphin. QMM is 80% owned by Rio Tinto and 20% owned by the Government of Madagascar. QMM began exploration of the Anosy region in the late 1980s and eventually discovered mineral deposits equalling 6,000 hectares of ilmenite. From the beginning, our work in Madagascar has centered around environmental
Diversified miner Rio Tinto has signed a power purchase agreement for a new renewable energy plant to power the operations of its QIT Madagascar Minerals (QMM) ilmenite mine in Fort Dauphin ...
An amount equalling the $12-million dividend will be invested by the government in the 109-km rehabilitation project of the National Road 13. Rio will also contribute up to $8-million to the road ...
Rio Tinto has signed a power purchasing agreement for a new renewable energy plant to power the operations of its QMM ilmenite mine in Fort Dauphin, S.
Contacts. Please direct all enquiries to media.enquiries@riotinto. Media Relations, UK Illtud Harri M +44 7920 503 600 David Outhwaite M +44 7787 597 493 Media Relations, Americas Matthew Klar ...
FORT DAUPHIN, Madagascar--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- In accordance with the commitments made last July, Rio Tinto QIT Madagascar Minerals (QMM) and its partner Crossboundary Energy (CBE) today laid the foundation stone for the solar and wind power plant project that will supply the QMM ilmenite mine operations in Fort Dauphin, in southern …
Ilmenite mined in Fort Dauphin (QMM) operations is being processed in Canada. QMM is a world-class ilmenite mining project. Ilmenite is a major source of titanium dioxide that is predominantly used as a white pigment in products such as paint and paper.
August 22, 2024. Technology firm Wärtsilä has signed an expanded Operations and Maintenance (O&M) agreement with mining company QIT Madagascar Minerals (QMM) – a …
Rio Tinto Minerals CEO Sinead Kaufman said: "With this flagship project, QMM is leading the way at Rio Tinto and in Madagascar in utilising renewable energy to power mining operations and reduce carbon emissions."
The QMM mine produces ilmenite, which is used to manufacture titanium dioxide, a white pigment used in paints, food, cosmetics, and other items. The mine extracts ilmenite from the sands along the ...
Rio Tinto has signed a power purchasing agreement for a new renewable energy plant to power the operations of its QMM ilmenite mine in Fort Dauphin, Southern Madagascar. This project, which uses solar and wind energy, will significantly contribute towards Rio Tinto's operations in Madagascar achieving its carbon neutral objective by 2023, it ...
The Toliara project will be an open-cut mining operation utilising a conventional dozer-fed dry mining unit (DMU) with in-pit tailings deposition. ... The ilmenite circuit will employ magnetic and electrostatic separation techniques to produce a non-magnetic stream, which will be passed through a wet non-magnetic circuit to remove residual ...
Rio Tinto QIT Madagascar Minerals (QMM) is located on the south-eastern tip of Madagascar, near the city of Fort Dauphin. QMM is 80% owned by Rio Tinto and 20% owned by the Government of Madagascar. QMM began exploration of the Anosy region in the late 1980s and eventually discovered mineral deposits equalling 6,000 hectares of ilmenite.
This paper traces a genealogy of land access and legitimization strategies culminating in the current convergence of mining and conservation in Southeast Madagascar, contributing to recent debates analyzing the commonalities and interdependencies between seemingly discrete types of land acquisitions. Drawing upon research carried out near the Rio Tinto/QMM ilmenite mine in
