Name of the Project
Arapua fertiliser project.

Location
Brazil.

Project Owner/s
Harvest Minerals.

Project Description
The project entails the significant expansion of the Arapua fertiliser project.

The project will include four additional knife mills, conveyor belts and supporting structures.

The new knife mills will act as secondary mills fed from the current primary mill to create one processing line with a planned capacity of 320 000 t/y.

The expansion creates one production line, with additional production lines to be added as required.

Potential Job Creation
Not stated.

Net Present Value/Internal Rate of Return
Not stated.

Capital Expenditure
The project is fully funded to meet the capital cost of the expansion.

Planned Start/End Date
The project is expected to be installed and commissioned by the start of the second quarter of this year.

Latest Developments
Harvest Minerals has expanded the current mining area and added additional run of mine (RoM) storage capacity at its Arapua project, where it produces KPFértil, a multinutrient direct-application natural remineraliser.

The company has increased the size of the current openpit by stripping the soil cover from about 6 000 m2 and exposing 70 000 t of weathered kamafugite, which is being mined using the company's own equipment. 

Owing to the heavily weathered nature of the ore, it has required no blasting and is simply being loaded onto trucks by a loader to be taken to the RoM storage area. As part of this work, a new RoM storage area has been created adjacent to the pit.

The expanded RoM storage facilities will also provide Harvest with more flexibility in ore handling, as well as further production development and product storage facilities going forward. 

About 10 000 t of topsoil has been removed, which has been stored in the organic stockpile, where it will be used for environmental restoration at a later date.

Key Contracts and Suppliers
None stated.

On Budget and on Time?
Not stated.

Contact Details for Project Information
Harvest Minerals, tel +61 8 9200 1847 or fax +61 8 9227 6390.