Despite rejection, company stills want to mine titanium

BRUNSWICK - An Australian mining company still hopes to mine titanium on a 1,000-acre tract it purchased in northern Glynn County last year despite a vote against it by the county commission. <br> <br> T.E. Consolidated attorney Mark Johnson said the company will explore its options after commissioners voted 6-1 last week against granting a land-use variance request that would have allowed it to go ahead with its mining plans. <br> <br> The land is zoned residential, but T.E. Consolidated, according to Johnson, wants to mine the sands on the site and then restore it so houses planned for the area could be built. <br> <br> In voting against the variance, most of the commissioners cited a concern about the company&#39;s plan to use a maximum of 450-thousand gallons of water per day from the Miocene aquifer. <br> <br> Titanium is used as pigment and in aircraft, sporting goods, automobiles, medicine, food products and pharmaceuticals.