{"id":35587,"date":"2026-05-27T10:33:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T08:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=35587"},"modified":"2026-05-27T10:33:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T08:33:59","slug":"eramet-partially-restarts-mineral-sands-production-in-senegal-after-fire-damages","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/eramet-partially-restarts-mineral-sands-production-in-senegal-after-fire-damages\/","title":{"rendered":"Eramet partially restarts mineral sands production in Senegal after fire damages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>French mining and metallurgic group Eramet this Wednesday said \u200bit had partially restarted production \u200cof heavy mineral concentrate at its plant in Senegal, as it \u200bseeks to mitigate a \u200bhit to its revenue from \u2060a fire that occurred in February.<\/p>\n<p>The \u200bcompany said the affected plant \u200bnow operates at around one-third of its nominal capacity. It aims to \u200breturn to full production level \u200bby the first quarter of 2027, following \u200creconstruction \u2060of damaged facilities.<\/p>\n<p>Having paused its original mineral sands production target, Eramet now sees an \u200boutput of \u200bbetween \u2060300 000 and 400 000 metric tons of heavy mineral \u200bconcentrate in 2026, versus \u200b900 000 \u2060tons before the fire.<\/p>\n<p>The company&#8217;s shares fell around 1.5% in \u2060early \u200btrading, pushing their \u200byear-to-date losses to 5.3%.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13643,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-35587","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"The company's shares fell around 1.5% in \u2060early \u200btrading, pushing their \u200byear-to-date losses to 5.3%.","published_date":"","news_description":"The company's shares fell around 1.5% in \u2060early \u200btrading, pushing their \u200byear-to-date losses to 5.3%.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/35587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/35587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35588,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/35587\/revisions\/35588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=35587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}