Unimin Australia Limited is a large Australian diversified processor and supplier of raw materials for the Australian, New Zealand and Asian manufacturing and primary industries. The principal industries supplied are glass, ceramics, paint, plastics, rubber, building materials, paper, refractories, oil drilling, foundries and coal washing.

The company operates a network of sales offices and distribution warehouses throughout Australia and New Zealand that can supply customers with quality raw material requirements. Principal product lines include silica sand, silica, feldspar, limestone, dolomite, magnetite, talc, bentonite, barytes and clays. Other speciality minerals are imported from leading international producers, including nepheline syenite from Unimin Canada.

Unimin Australia Limited is owned by Unimin Corporation USA


Major markets are:

  • Glass (sand, feldspar, nepheline syenite, felsand, calcined alumina, dolomite)
  • Coal and Steel (magnetite, dolomite, limestone, lime)
  • Ceramics (nepheline syenite, feldspar, silica, sand, clay, manganese)
  • Civil Engineering (lime, limestone, bentonite)
  • Mineral Processing (lime, limestone)
  • Plastics (talc, alumina hydrate, barytes, wollastonite)
  • Surface coatings (talc, nepheline syenite, silica, sand, barytes, clay)
  • Drilling (barytes, bentonite, frac sand)
  • Foundry (bentonite, sand)
  • Rubber (talc, clay)
  • Building Materials (talc, clay, silica sand, bentonite, manganese dioxide)
  • Paper (kaolin clay, bentonite)
  • Agriculture (bentonite, dolomite, limestone)

Unimin Quick Facts

Mining
- Thirty one active mine sites

Processing plants
- Thirty two plants

Employees
- Approximately 600

 

 

Unimin Australia Limited
Level 16
111 Pacific Highway
North Sydney, NSW 2060
Phone: 61-2-9458-2929
Fax: 61-2-9458-2900