High purity alumina producer receives approval for kaolin screening and loading facility
Altech Chemicals Limited, aiming to become one of the
world's leading suppliers of 99.99% (4N) high purity alumina (HPA), has announced
that the Western Australia (WA) Department of Water and Environmental
Regulation (DWER) has granted works approval on 25 August 2017 for the construction
of kaolin screening and loading facility at Meckering, Western Australia.
This facility would provide feedstock to its proposed
Malaysian high purity alumina (HPA) processing plant. This approval would allow
the company to start construction and mining operations at Meckering.
The works include ROM stockpile, evaporation pond, trommel
screening unit, and loading facility. The
company previously received mining approval by the WA Department of Mines,
Industry Regulation and Safety (DMIRS) (formerly Department of Mines and
Petroleum).
“At Meckering, mined kaolin ore will be screened to a size
of12mm via a trommel screening unit. The 12 mm screened ore will proceed to a
housed container loading facility, where it will be fed into standard 20-foot
shipping containers via a telescopic container feed conveyor.
“Once loaded, the
shipping containers will be transported by road to the port of Fremantle, for
shipment to Johor, Malaysia, the location of the Company’s proposed high purity
alumina (HPA) processing plant,” it said.
Altech Chemicals Limited is currently in the process of
securing project financing with the aim of commencing project development in
2018.
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