Australian Bauxite Ltd (ASX:ABX) To Restart Mine Operations on 8 August
Sydney, July 29, 2016 AEST (ABN Newswire) - Australian Bauxite Ltd (
ASX:ABX) and its operations contractor, Stornoway, have made arrangements to restart the Bald Hill Bauxite Project at Campbell Town, Northern Tasmania on 8 August 2016 t o continue with routine rehabilitation and t o commence assembling the next 3 bauxite lots for sale, including a large ship load, planned for shipping in late Spring.
Site inspections completed during June and July have confirmed that the site is now well positioned for restarting and was undamaged during the recent major flood event in Northern Tasmania that occurred whilst the Bald Hill Project was fortunately on care and maintenance.
Conditions at Bald Hill normally become drier and better for bauxite handling during late August and September. ABx is allowing ample time to assemble its sales tonnages, ready for railing t o port for shipping to meet its customers' schedule.
Market development work will be a high priority for the site team and the marketing team to supply large samples for testing by several future customers, each of whom will conduct their own full-scale final engineering tests. Fortunately, the customers are aware that ABx bauxite is already producing high specification cement at state-of-the-art cement plants and they rapidly move t o the advanced test stages. A multi-tonne cement-grade bauxite sample will be assembled in early August for containerisation and shipping to a new customer's site where final engineering tests will be conducted on concrete produced using ABx bauxite to confirm its favourable late strength characteristics. Tests are typically done on the concrete at intervals of 3, 7, 28 and 62 days.
ABx's Chief Operating Officer, Leon Hawker commented; "There's sufficient bauxite tonnage for several shiploads that has been methodically stored at the mine site for blending t o meet the grade requirement of our bauxite cement customers. There is also the beginnings of a shipload of metallurgical-grade bauxite for the aluminium industry, when prices are attractive for ABx.
ABx's Logistics Manager, Paul Glover commented; "Our cement-grade bauxite is designed t o supply both aluminium oxide and iron oxide t o cement plants in a single, stable, clean product and ABx is able t o blend the exact mixture for each individual customer's situation. Having been washed clean over geological time means that our bauxite is naturally chemically pure. Bauxite lowers the kiln temperatures and reduces wear in many cement kilns and is suitable for making corrosion resistant cement with excellent late strength for many modern applications.
It is even grained, dry, dust-free and exceptionally good for handling due to rigorous processing by Stornoway contractors at Bald Hill mine, careful transport pit-to-port by TasRail and professional port handling at Bell Bay Port by QUBE Ports."
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About Australian Bauxite Ltd
Australian Bauxite Limited (ABx) (ASX:ABX) has its first bauxite mine in Tasmania & controls the Eastern Australian Bauxite Province. ABx's 11 bauxite tenements in Queensland, New South Wales & Tasmania totalling 662 km2 are all 100% owned, unencumbered & free of third-party royalties. ABx's bauxite is gibbsite trihydrate (THA) bauxite that can be processed into alumina at low temperature.
ABx has committed a large proportion of its expenditure into Research and Development to find ways to capitalise on the main strengths of its bauxite type which is very clean, free of all deleterious elements and partitioned into layers, nodules, particles and grains of different qualities that can be separated into different product streams using physical, chemical and geophysical methods.
ABx has declared large Mineral Resources in northern NSW, southern NSW, Binjour in central QLD & in northern Tasmania.
ABx's first mine commenced at Bald Hill near Campbell Town, Tasmania in December 2014 - the first new Australian bauxite mine for more than 35 years.
ABx aspires to identify large bauxite resources in the Eastern Australian Bauxite Province and has created significant bauxite development projects in 3 states, Queensland, New South Wales and Tasmania. Its bauxite deposits are favourably located for direct shipping of bauxite to both local and export customers.
ABx endorses best practices on agricultural land, strives to leave land and environment better than we find it. We only operate where welcomed.
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