Companies headed by Chinese businessman Wu Tao have been at work for nearly 10 years in Mozambique's heavy sands, which are prized for the titanium-rich ilmenite they contain. Now, they have extended their search for the precious mineral to the seabeds of the country's coastal waters. [...]
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Nouakchott strikes environmental compromise to let MTR resume extracting titanium

The Chinese company Mauritania Titanium Resources has resumed mining on its black sands licence after getting the green light from Nouakchott. The authorities have found a compromise between the environmental risks posed by the project and their desire to enter the growing global market for titanium, which is extracted from black sands.

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