Richards Bay Minerals (RBM) is a South African mining company. RBM's principal product is titanium dioxide in the form of an 85% pure titanium dioxide slag; the company also produces the higher-purity 95% titanium dioxide product rutile as well as pig iron and zircon.[1]
History
Richards Bay Minerals was created in 1976 for the extraction of heavy mineral sands from the dunes of northern KwaZulu-Natal.[2]
From 2015 to 2018, Richards Bay Minerals stopped paying the Blue Horizons Investments trustees, arguing that the money was not benefiting the local communities. Armed violence and murders followed.[2] In May 2021, RBM's general manager Richards Bay was shot down on his way to work.[3] In 2021, when RBM finally paid the due deeds to Blue Horizons Investments.