“We are the only non-Chinese producer, but fortunately we make the best manganese metal, the purest manganese metal in the world, and therefore we feed into a quality niche market in which nobody else can really compete,” MMC chairperson and mining stalwart Bernard Swanepoel told Mining Weekly during Friday’s MMC Open Day. The EMM is 99.9% pure, beating the next highest 99.7%įor the last 49 years, MMC has taken the waste product of manganese mining in South Africa, the fines, and beneficiated them using chemical processing and large quantities of electricity to make 3% of the world’s manganese metal. Currently, 56% of the electrolytic manganese metal (EMM) it produces is sold to Japan, 25% to the US, and 10% to Europe. As part of a circular beneficiation model being introduced, a more sustainable alternative of using landfill material to make clay bricks for local communities is being put in place.Īs the single largest user of potable water in Nelspruit, projects to recycle and clean water are on the go to elevate MMC to globally acceptable levels as an exporter.
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