Minimum mineral content for export reduced
Thursday, February 28 2013 - 02:49 AM WIB
The minimum purity level of zirconium silicate which can be exported has, for example, been reduced to 62 percent from 65 percent previously.
The association?s chairman Gunawan Tjandra, who is also the president director of PT Dian Lestari Sejahtera, said that the association would also ask the government to revise the purity level of associated products of zirconium silicate such as zeolite.
The cation exchange capacity of zeolite which can be exported will, for example, should be removed . Zeolite which can be exported will be instead based on their forms such as powder with size of between 80 and 200 mesh, grains with sizes of between 0.5 to 10 millimeter and pellet with size of 2 to 5 millimeter.
At present, zeolite which can be exported should have the citation exchange capacity of 100 milliequivalent.
Meanwhile, the association will also ask the government to reduce the purity level of manganese which can be exported from 98 percent at present to 62 percent.
Meanwile, Dede I Suhendar, the director for minerals at the Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry, said that the proposal for the revision of the purity level of mineral products which can be exported would be submitted to the ministry?s coal and mineral technology development for further consideration.
He said that the proposal would be used as the basis for the revision of the purity level of all mineral products stipulated in the Energy and Mineral Resources Minister?s regulation Number 7/2012. (*)