Company type | Public company |
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ASX: ILU | |
Industry | Mining |
Founded | Iluka Resources Limited (ILU) 1998; Merger of Westralian Sands (WSL) & RGC[1] |
Headquarters | 140 St Georges Terrace Perth, Western Australia |
Key people | Greg Martin (chairman) Tom O'Leary (CEO) Doug Warden (chief financial officer and Head of Strategy and Planning) Steve Wickham (chief operating officer, Mineral Sands) Matthew Blackwell (Head of Marketing, Mineral Sands) Simon Hay (Head of Resource Development) Sue Wilson (General Counsel and company secretary) [2] |
Products | Ilmenite, zircon, rutile, synthetic rutile) |
Revenue | $726.3 million AUD (2016)[3] |
$(224) million AUD (2016)[3] | |
Number of employees | 1,100[4] |
Website | Iluka.com |
Iluka Resources is an Australian-based resources company, specialising in mineral sands exploration, project development, operations and marketing. Iluka is the largest producer of zircon and titanium dioxide–derived rutile and synthetic rutile globally.[5] Iluka mines heavy mineral sands and separates the concentrate into its individual mineral constituents rutile, ilmenite, and zircon. Some of the ilmenite is then processed into synthetic rutile.
Iluka has operations in the Australian states of Western Australia (Eucla and Perth Basins), South Australia (Jacinth-Ambrosia Mine), Victoria and New South Wales (Murray Basin), the United States (Virginia) and Sierra Leone.