Ironveld furnace operations start; enters loan facility deal

Ironveld plc is an exploration and development company. It is engaged in the mining, exploration, processing and smelting of Vanadiferous and Titaniferous Magnetite in South Africa. Its high purity iron, vanadium and titanium project located on the Northern Limb of the Bushveld Complex in Limpopo Province South Africa. The Bushveld is a metallogenic province covering approximately 66,000 square kilometers (km2) in the north of South Africa. It hosts mineral deposits, including platinum group metals, vanadium, chrome, palladium and rhodium. It has an operating mining division, which mines vanadiferous-titaniferous-magnetite for sale to industrial users and to its own smelting division, which processes its magnetite ore into three products: high purity iron, vanadium slag and titanium slag. The Company, through Ferrochrome Furnaces Pty Limited (FCF), owns a mothballed smelter complex in Rustenburg, South Africa, which is approximately 400 kilometers from its Bushveld mining project.