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  • Mining company seeking wealth in oil sands waste

    Gary Park, Petroleum News Calgary correspondent|Updated Dec 21, 2003

    A Canadian mining company is gambling C$5 million on a pilot project that it hopes will show how titanium and zircon can be produced from the tailings of Syncrude Canada's oil sands mining operation. Titanium Corp., based in Toronto, Ontario, will build and operate the world's first mineral sand processing facility at a government-sponsored research park in Regina, Saskatchewan. Titanium is a rare and super-hard metal that is extensively used in aircraft manufacturing as well as other industries and zircon is used in a...