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Base Resources forecasts lower ilmenite output from Kenya in 2017/18

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.

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