Heavy Mineral Sands

A defined resource. Four minerals. One mining stream.

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The minerals inside Chilwa's deposit are not just industrial commodities. They are the foundational materials of the technological age.

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Western governments have formally designated all of them as critical minerals, signed bilateral supply agreements to secure them, and committed billions in emergency funding to build supply chains that do not run through China. Chilwa's project sits at the centre of that global effort.

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Chilwa's heavy mineral sands deposits ring the shores of lake chilwa and carry four minerals modern industry runs on. Ilmenite and rutile are the titanium feedstocks behind everything from aerospace alloys and medical implants to the pigment in paint, plastics and paper. Zircon goes into advanced ceramics, foundry moulds and nuclear fuel cladding. And monazite is a rare-earth-bearing mineral that helps feed the magnets inside electric vehicles and wind turbines.

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With a JORC Resource already defined across deposits including Mposa, Mpyupyu and the northern shore — and the company's first scoping study advancing — heavy mineral sands is the most mature part of the Chilwa project.

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Updated June 2026