Thailand has plenty of river sand resource which is high quality of silica sand, upto 99.6% SiO2. In the northest, the river sand had been proved that the high iron contaimination Fe2O3 upto 0.165% can be lowered down to 0.065% by high gradient magnetic separation technology.

Citic Pacific owns Sino Iron and Balmoral Iron with 1 billion tons of magnetite. Capacity of Sino Iron Ore Project is 85 million tons of crude ore or 27 million tons of iron concentrate.