Project news

Western Australia's Minister for Environment has given project approval to Reward Minerals' Lake Disappointment sulfate of potash project.

The company has said that specialist equipment fabrication and supply is on track, with shipments from German suppliers due to commence this month.

An upcoming project on the Great Central Road will significantly enhance project access, future logistics and transport of people, equipment, materials and product to the regional centre of Laverton.

Kropz has launched an open offer to existing shareholders to raise up to US$4 million to bring the company's Elandsfontein phosphate project, located in South Africa, into production.

The rights uptake complements the AUS$2 million placement completed in April this year.

The deadline for completion of Tranche 2 of the equity funding for Danakali's Colluli sulfate of potash project in Eritrea has been extended to on or before 21 November 2020.

Emmerson's feasibility study gives a project value of US$1.4 billion (post-tax net present value) and internal rate of return of 38.5% over an initial 19-year mine life.

The new bulkhead, which has been designed specifically to improve the safety level of mining operations at Solikamsk-1, is a 65-m long waterproofing structure made up of seven segments of various sizes.

A bulk sample of harvest salt from the Stage 1 Kainite ponds was collected in March to confirm plant feed grades and produce mass samples of sulfate of potash for end user customers.

Acron Group has commissioned a new 700 000 tpy urea granulation unit at its Veliky Novgorod site in Russia.

The company is trying to raise a total of approximately AUS$61 million in capital for its Beyondie sulfate of potash project in Western Australia.

Casale has said Metafrax's large ammonia-urea-melamine complex in northern Russia will be put onstream within the end of the year.

Kalium Lakes is aiming to raise approximately AUS$61 million to fund the completion of construction of its Beyondie sulfate of potash project in Western Australia.

Pumping of the initial brine extraction bore drilled into the Lake Way paleochannel delivered flow rates of 18 litres per second, with a consistent potassium grade of 7100 mg per litre (15.9kg/m3 SOP), sustained over a 17 day period.

Completion of EPCM phase 2 is anticipated in June 2020.