Fertilizer project news

The plant, opened by Aliko Dangote and located at the Lekki Free Zone in Lagos State, is designed to produce 3 million tpy of urea and supply all the major markets in sub-Saharan Africa.

Trigg Mining has said that a 80 km long aquifer target has been defined at the Lake Yeo SOP project and substantial further upside identified at the Lake Throssell SOP project.

Phosphate rock concentrate samples from the Elandsfontein project in South Africa will now be prepared for shipment to a number of potential buyers to confirm product specifications.

The testwork was completed by two different vendors under the direction of Primero Group, a subsidiary of NRW Holdings.

The hole is scheduled to be completed in early May and will be assayed for chemical composition immediately once core is withdrawn.

Brazil Potash Corp. has said that its executives have met with Brazilian Agriculture Minister Tereza Cristina Dias in Ottawa, Canada, and discussed increasing from 2.44 million tonnes to over 5 million tpy the output from its Autazes project in the Amazon.

The plant has been designed with an initial production capacity of 150 000 tpy, with capability to expand up to 450 000 tpy.

Core assay results from OHM-02 are expected to be received in approximately 4 weeks.

The NPK plant is being built within FACT's existing manufacturing facility of Cochin Division (CD) at Ambalam Edu in the Ernakulam district in the state of Kerala.

Mark Cutifani, Chief Executive of Anglo American, said at the company’s recent Annual Results presentation that the company invested nearly £390 million in the project last year, with excavation of the mineral transport tunnel from Teesside passing 18 km by the end of the year.