Metallica Minerals celebrates maiden bauxite shipment from Hey Point facility

<p>Australian resource development company Metallica Minerals Limited has announced the successful maiden shipment of bauxite using a barge loading and transhipping facility at Hey Point near Weipa. <br /><br />Metallica plans to use the same infrastructure on the west coast of Queensland's Cape York for delivering a readymade logistics solution for its bauxite output planned in first half of 2017. The company's new bauxite mining operation- the Urquhart bauxite project will be churning out bauxite for export early next year. <br /><br /><img style="vertical-align: middle; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="http://www.alcircle.com/uploads/images/weipa_regular.jpg" alt="News" width="480" height="420" /><br /><br />Currently, Metallica has two project interests- the Cape York Heavy Mineral Sand and Bauxite Project, located on the west coast of Queensland&rsquo;s Cape York and Esmeralda Graphite Project, located near Croydon in north Queensland. The Bauxite Project is held 50 per cent by Metallica Minerals&rsquo; wholly owned subsidiary, Oresome Australia Pty Ltd, and 50 per cent by a private Chinese investor, Ozore Pty Ltd.<br /><br />{googleAdsense}<br /><br />The maiden voyage of bauxite is a milestone that is being celebrated by the Austrlaian minerals company. Metallica Minerals CEO Simon Slesarewich said Urquhart bauxite project, on completition, will have a capacity to export 1.6 million tonnes of bauxite annually.</p>