Rutile and ilmenite in Australia - Chemlink
Tiwest operates with a primary processing plant at Chandala producing crude titanium dioxide (synthetic rutile) from ilmenite from their mine at Cooljarloo (near Eneabba) 180 km north of Perth. The operation uses the thermal Becher process to convert 330 000 tonnes ilmenite to 190 000 tonnes of synthetic rutile (94 per cent titanium dioxide).