Beach Sand Minerals

                                         

• Beach sand minerals are different to most commodities.
• The term "Beach  sand mineral" normally refers to concentrations of heavy minerals (HM) in an alluvial (old beach or river system) environment.
• The mineral sands industry consists of two principal product streams:
  First one is-Titanium dioxide minerals  in the form of rutile, ilmenite and leucoxene and the second is Zircon.
• Ilmenite is also used to manufacture titanium slag and synthetic rutile products.
• The heavy minerals of the Florida region are very sparse in the areas of Pleistocene sands back from the coast.