The Richards Bay Minerals site in KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa, will return to full operations in January REUTERSRio Tinto is preparing to resume minerals production at a site in South Africa almost a month after violence forced it to halt operations. The Anglo-Australian mining group said that it expected to return to full operations at its Richards Bay Minerals site in KwaZulu-Natal province in the east of the country by early January and would be back to regular production shortly afterwards. The site processes black beach sand from which it extracts about two million tonnes a year of minerals, making it one of the world’s biggest sources of ilmenite, rutile and zircon. Rio Tinto is a FTSE 100 group that made net profits of $14 billion in 2018. Its biggest business is mining iron ore, but it also produces aluminium, copper, diamonds…

Source: The Times December 31, 2019 00:08 UTC