Mid West

Long-life sand project in WA nears final approvals as Asia’s industrial demand collides with critical shortage of high-grade supply

In the scrubby sands of Western Australia’s Mid West, a quietly ambitious mining development is nearing a final government tick — and it’s shaping up to be a masterclass in low-impact, high-efficiency industrial minerals extraction.

Empire’s titanium unicorn breaks the mould with free-dig ore, no ilmenite, and a flow sheet that rewrites the TiO₂ playbook

Forget ilmenite—sediment-hosted, hydrothermally-altered titanium system in Western Australia is flipping the script on how high-grade TiO₂ feedstocks are found—and how they’re processed.