TITANIUM 



661 



Table 141. — Identified titanium resources, in thousands of 

 short tons, of the world — Continued 



Continent and country TiOs 



Africa — Continued : 



South African Republic 761,384 



South West Africa 5 



Spanish Sahara 8,819 



Tanzania 6,449 



Uganda 5,156 



United Arab Republic 16,660 



Upper Volta 6,614 



Total 818,436 



Asia: 



Burma 678 



Ceylon 2,849 



China, People's Republic 744 



Taiwan 27 



India 196,726 



Indonesia 1,819 



Japan 9,052 



Korea 826 



Malaysia 82 



North Vietnam 4 



Pakistan 849 



Philippines 807 



Saudi Arabia 69 



Thailand 8 



Total 214,540 



World total 1,970,610 



The amounts listed are considered to be very con- 

 servative, because quantitative estimates of the 

 potential titanium resources in many of the large 

 complexes of mafic rock in various parts of the 

 vi^orld are not included. 



Because rutile is the preferred raw material for 

 the chemical extraction of titanium in commercial 

 practice, the resources of rutile are worthy of con- 

 sideration separately, even though they are included 

 in the titanium resources listed in table 141. Iden- 

 tified resources of rutile in some principal primary 

 and secondary deposits are listed in table 142. 



Although the identified titanium resources of the 

 world are large, less than 10 percent of these re- 

 sources can be considered as titanium reserves. 

 Recent estimates made by the U.S. Bureau of Mines 

 (Stamper, 1970) of world reserves of titanium show 

 nearly 147 million short tons of contained titanium, 

 which is equivalent to about 247 million tons of 

 TiOs. The distribution of these reserves is shown 

 in table 143. As for total identified resources, the 

 reserve data are considered to be very incomplete. 



HYPOTHETICAL RESOURCES 



Hypothetical resources of titanium are large, but 

 difficult to quantify. Because the estimates of identi- 

 fied resources for the world include more than 90 

 percent potential ores in known districts and less 

 than 10 percent reserves, those estimates, to some 

 degree, may include some hypothetical ores. Some 



Table 142.- 



-Identified world resources, in thousands of 

 short tons, of rutile 



[Identified resources: Specific, identified mineral deposits that may or 

 may not be evaluated as to extent and grade, and whose contained min- 

 erals may or may not be profitably recoverable with existing technology 

 and economic conditions. Data from Barksdale (1966); Hillhouse (1960); 

 Lawthers (1964, 1967); Lynd (1972); Peterson (1966); Rose (1969); 

 Stamper (1970); U.S. Bur. Mines "Mineral Trade Notes, 1950-70" and 

 "Minerals Yearbooks. 1960-70"] 



Country 



Rutile 



Canada: 



St. Urbain 



United States : 



Amherst and Nelson Counties, Va 450 



Magnet Cove, Ark. 



South Carolina monazite belt 



Florida and Georgia deposits 



Mexico: 



Pluma Hidalgo, Oaxaca 5,000 



Brazil : 



Paranaiba delta. State of Maranhao ._ 



State of Sergipe 



Uruguay: 



Aguas Dulces 



Argentina : 



Buenos Aires Province 



Sierra Leone: 



Bonthe (Sherbro) area 1,500- 



Cameroons : 



Yaounde River ( 



Senegal : 



Coast north of Dakar 



South Africa: 



Orange Free State 



Natal 



South West Africa : 



Area north of Karibib 



U.S.S.R.: 



Ukraine 



India: 



Kerala State 



Ceylon : 



Pulmoddai and Kokkilai area 



Australia : 



Eneabba, west coast of 



Western Australia 



Coast of Queensland ) 



Coast of New South Wales ) 



300 



1,150 

 500 



1,100 

 650 



-25,000 



500 

 300 



27.2 



1.9 



■30,000 



) 



100 



500 

 170 



5 



'300 



100 



300 



' 1,000 

 6,900 



^ Past production data ; 

 - Data incomplete, 

 ^ Undeveloped. 



ailable, but ] 



data. 



Table 143.- 



-World reserves, in thousands of short tons, of 

 titanium 



[Reserves: Identified deposits fro 

 ably with existing technology 

 Data from Stamper (1970)] 



which minerals can be extracted profit- 

 id under present economic conditions. 



coastal areas, into which extensions of deposits of 

 titaniferous sands can be projected, are excluded 



