BCI Minerals: A new Direction
All images: BCI Minerals. BY ELIZABETH FABRI WA-based BCI Minerals – formerly BC Iron – has a new name, a new focus, and a suite of high-quality projects in the Pilbara that will be hitting key development milestones over the coming year. BCI Minerals managing director Alwyn Vorster sheds light on the miner’s recent diversification strategy beyond iron ore to salt and sulphate of potash (SOP). Q. The company changed its name last November. Was diversification the key driver of the rebrand? The decision to diversify beyond just iron ore was a very deliberate one. BC Iron had just emerged from a fight for survival due to operating a single, higher cost iron ore mine (Nullagine) at a time when…