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Kaolin opens up alumina opportunities
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A Perth-based exploration company says Australian scientists have verified the value of its resources in Western Australia's wheatbelt.
Australian Minerals and Mining Group owns tenements of kaolin rock near Meckering and Hyden.
Kaolin is traditionally used to manufacture paper and clay but Chinese scientists have discovered it can be converted into a valuable form of aluminium.
Alumina is used in hi-tech equipment such as computers and is worth up to $300 a kilogram.
The company's managing director, Ric Dawson, says the company can now start building a pilot processing plant.
"That pilot plant would have the facility of producing high purity alumina which we could market straight away and the pilot plant would also start working out the parameters if we wanted to go down the route of a metallurgical grade alumina," he said.
Australian Minerals and Mining Group owns tenements of kaolin rock near Meckering and Hyden.
Kaolin is traditionally used to manufacture paper and clay but Chinese scientists have discovered it can be converted into a valuable form of aluminium.
Alumina is used in hi-tech equipment such as computers and is worth up to $300 a kilogram.
The company's managing director, Ric Dawson, says the company can now start building a pilot processing plant.
"That pilot plant would have the facility of producing high purity alumina which we could market straight away and the pilot plant would also start working out the parameters if we wanted to go down the route of a metallurgical grade alumina," he said.
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