THE PRIME MINISTER
Decision No. 1546/QD-TTg of September 3, 2013, approving the master plan on zoning of areas for exploration, mining, processing and use of titanium ore through 2020, with a vision toward 2030
Pursuant to the December 25, 2001 Law on Organization of the Government;
Pursuant to November 17, 2010 Law No. 60/2010/QH12 on Minerals;
Pursuant to the Government s Decree No. 92/2006/ND-CP of September 7, 2006, on the elaboration, approval and management of socio-economic development master plans; and Decree No. 04/2008/ND-CP of January 11, 2008, amending and supplementing a number of articles of Decree No. 92/2006/ND-CP of September 7, 2006;
Pursuant to the Prime Minister s Decision No. 2427/QD-TTg of December 22, 2011, approving the Mineral Strategy through 2020, with a vision toward 2030;
At the proposal of the Minister of Industry and Trade in Report No. 2702/TTr-BCT of March 29, 2012, and Official Letter No. 6083/ BCT-CNNg of July 10, 2013,
DECIDES:
Article 1. To approve the master plan on zoning of areas for exploration, mining, processing and use of titanium ore through 2020, with a vision toward 2030, with the following principal contents:
1. Development viewpoints
- The country has a large natural resource of titanium ore, which serves as a prerequisite and an important condition for building a modem titanium ore mining and processing industry to support the national socio- economic development along the line of industrialization and modernization and international integration.
- To build and develop a complete and sustainable industry of titanium ore mining and processing toward modernity, economical use of natural resources, economic-social- environmental benefits and social order and safety. Products of this industry must be deeply processed to meet domestic use and export demands.
- To develop the titanium ore mining and processing industry with a reasonable roadmap and scale in order to meet to the utmost requirements and objectives of the national economic development in each period; to apply advanced technologies to ensure maximum recovery of useful elements in titanium ore and save energy; to develop the titanium industry in harmony with the infrastructure-service system (transportation, seaports, electricity and water supply, logistic and technical services, etc.); to step by step form technological complexes for mining, sorting and deep processing of titanium ore in association with support industries to serve the mining and processing industry, first of all in areas with large titanium ore deposits in Binh Thuan and Ninh Thuan provinces.
- To invest in developing the titanium ore mining and processing industry on the basis of mobilizing different resources at home and abroad. The investment cooperation with foreign countries aims mostly at acquiring advanced technologies in the field of deep processing and penetrating into the world market.
2. Development objectives
a/ General objectives
- By 2020: To form the titanium industry with deeply processed products being pigment
and porous titanium; to meet domestic demand for pigment; to export titanium slag, porous titanium and zirconium oxychloride salt products.
- By 2030: To develop the stable and sustainable titanium industry with large hi-tech titanium ore mining and processing centers in Binh Thuan; to concentrate on and prioritize the development of pigment, porous titanium, titanium metal and alloys to meet domestic and export demands.
b/ Specific objectives
-By 2015
+To complete the exploration and assessment of reserves of titanium mines to be operated in the planning period, assuring reliable reserves for investment in titanium mining and processing projects.
+ To maintain production at a scale suitable to the actual use demand concurrently with reorganizing production at the existing titanium mines and titanium ore processing facilities; to renew and upgrade technologies, improve the recoverability of low-grade ore and ore tailings; to fully meet the domestic demand for zirconium powder and reconstituted ilmenite; to produce titanium slag and artificial rutile for use as materials for production of pigment and export.
+ To build and commission a number of plants processing titanium slag and artificial rutile in the four planning areas; to research technologies and prepare investment in projects to produce porous titanium and titanium metal in Binh Thuan province, produce pigment in Binh Dinh and Binh Thuan provinces; to prepare investment in a large titanium ore mining and processing complex in Binh Thuan province.
+ To invest in, renovate and upgrade infrastructure (roads, electricity and water supply, etc.) synchronously with development of titanium mining and processing projects.
The forecast total processing output by 2015: 60,000 tons of reconstituted ilmenite per year; 945,000 tons of titanium slag per year; 60,000 tons of artificial rutile per year; and 152,000 tons of fine and superfine zirconium powder per year.
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