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Minersa Group
Spanish mining group; world's second-largest acid-grade fluorspar producer with 340,000+ tpa combined capacity. Operates Vergenoeg mine (240K tpa, Gauteng, South Africa — 85% Minersa / 15% MEDU Capital) and MPD Fluorspar (Minerales y Productos Derivados, ~100K tpa, Salamanca, Spain).
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MPD Fluorspar (Minerales y Productos Derivados) →
ESCastile and León · mine
Spanish fluorspar mining and processing operation; ~100,000 tpa acid-grade capacity. Combined with Vergenoeg, Minersa Group total = 340,000+ tpa acid-spar. Source: https://fluorspar.com/2025/04/09/minersa-group/
Vergenoeg Fluorspar Mine →
ZAGauteng · mine
South Africa's largest fluorspar mine; 240,000 tpa acid-grade capacity, 65 km NE of Pretoria (near Rust de Winter). 85% Minersa Group / 15% MEDU Capital ownership. Source: https://fluorspar.com/2025/04/09/minersa-group/
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Acid-Grade Fluorspar (Vergenoeg, South Africa)
65%Acid-Grade Fluorspar (MPD, Spain)
30%Metallurgical Fluorspar & Byproducts
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Did you know2023
Acid-grade fluorspar from Minersa's South Africa and Spain mines feeds into hydrofluoric acid (HF) production, which serves four completely unrelated industries: refrigerants (HF is the upstream input for HFCs and HFOs), semiconductor manufacturing (HF for silicon wafer etching and cleaning), uranium enrichment (UF6 production for nuclear fuel), and pharmaceutical synthesis (organofluorine compounds). Minersa sells acid-grade fluorspar that becomes HF that goes into the refrigerant in your air conditioner, the etchant cleaning semiconductor wafers in your phone chip, and potentially the uranium hexafluoride used in nuclear fuel enrichment -- from the same South African mine. The refrigerant industry, semiconductor industry, and nuclear fuel industry each monitor HF supply independently with no awareness that their HF-derived inputs share the same Spanish-controlled South African fluorspar source.
Minersa Group ↗Origin2023
Minersa Group is a Spanish mining company that controls two of the world's most strategic fluorspar deposits: the Vergenoeg mine in Gauteng, South Africa (one of the largest fluorite ore bodies in the world, with 240,000 tpa capacity) and MPD Fluorspar in Salamanca, Spain (~100,000 tpa). Fluorspar (calcium fluoride, CaF2) is the only commercially significant source of fluorine -- the element that enables hydrofluoric acid production, which in turn enables the entire fluorochemical industry: refrigerants, PTFE, pharmaceuticals, and HF-based semiconductor wafer etching. A Spanish company with South African mine operations controls the world's second-largest acid-grade fluorspar position -- behind only China's dominant producers. The Vergenoeg deposit was discovered by Anglo American and has been mined since the 1980s; Minersa acquired its majority stake as part of South Africa's post-apartheid mining restructuring that opened strategic mineral assets to foreign investment.
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