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Potash West declares resource at Dinner Hill

12th August 2013

By: Esmarie Iannucci

Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor: Australasia

  

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PERTH (miningweekly.com) – Junior Potash West has announced an indicated mineral resource of 58-million tonnes, grading 3% potash at its Dinner Hill project, in Western Australia.

Potash West noted that the mineralisation remained open to the north and east of the deposit.

The company initiated a scoping study of the Dinner Hill deposit in April this year to provide indicative technical and financial data on producing superphosphate from the greensands at Dinner Hill.

The low mining costs and conventional processing route, coupled with low infrastructure and transportation costs, were expected to produce a positive scoping study result by September this year.

Potash West MD Patrick McManus said that the resource was the first step in evaluating the possibility of producing phosphate products at the project, and would underpin the scoping study.

“The low overburden, easy mining and available infrastructure will allow low-cost development and mining, which will offset the relatively low in-situ grade,” said McManus.

“The scoping study will address the viability of a standalone phosphate operation, based on this resource. It will also offer some indications as to the impact of a phosphate treatment plant on the economics of the K-Max process.”

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