Project news

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.

Highfield Resources has completed exploration drill holes at its Vipasca and Sierra del Perdón permit areas in Spain.

Major project status will allow the project to receive additional government support.

Western Potash Corp. is delaying completion of construction for the balance of its Milestone phase 1 project process plant in Saskatchewan, Canada, from July to the end of this year.

Veolia will design and supply two HPD crystallisers: one to grow 32 t of high-purity potassium sulfate crystals every hour, the other to recycle 54 tph of solids to yield the maximum potassium recovery.

The company's production target from the development is 400 000 tpy of muriate of potash over an initial 18-year life.

The Karinga Lakes potash project (KLPP) covers an extensive brine lake system over pastoral land, located approximately 250 km southwest of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory, Australia.