Australia's Base Resources expects its ilmenite output in Kenya to fall by 8-14 percent this financial year but does not foresee disruption in the run-up to next month's national election, it said on Thursday.
Base said that output of the commodity mined for titanium dioxide production and used as a base pigment in paint, paper and plastics will be between 400,000 tonnes and 430,000 tonnes in the year to June 30, 2018, compared with 467,359 tonnes the previous year.