QIT - Fer et Titane Inc. (QIT)
Lake Allard and Lake Tio are home to QIT's mining operations. Located on the St. Lawrence River's North Shore, 40 km north of Havre St-Pierre, Quebec, these sites contain the world's largest deposits of ilmenite ore, an almost inexhaustible supply of raw material. The ore is crushed on-site and shipped to the QIT complex in Sorel, Quebec. Here it is mixed with high quality coal, and smelted in electric arc furnaces to produce Sorelmetal®, a premium quality iron, and titanium dioxide rich slag known as Sorelslag.®

Richards Bay Minerals (RBM)
The RBM operations are located near the port of Richards Bay on the Indian Ocean coastline in Northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The heavy mineral sand deposits are extracted and the ilmenite is sent 20 km inland to the smelting operations where Sorelmetal® and Sorelslag® are produced using the same processes as QIT.