The objectives of the PEA include:
- Completion of an independent PEA-level engineering analysis of the project with the aim of producing phosphate fertilizer products from a fully integrated facility;
- Providing an updated NI 43-101 mineral resource estimate;
- Providing an estimate of the potential economic value of the project;
- Providing an estimate of the project's capital costs, operating costs, as well as sustaining capital costs;
- Providing a conceptual economic model of the project over the life-of-mine.
As a result of a positive marketing study outlining the significant demand growth in the Western Canadian phosphate markets over the last 10 years, the design of the Martison fully integrated phosphate fertilizer complex is being engineered with the following parameters.
Mine site, Located approximately 70 km north of
- An open pit truck and shovel operation and all necessary ancillary infrastructure capable of producing 1,420,000 tonnes of 37% P2O5 concentrate per annum
- A beneficiation plant designed to process over 4,000,000 tonnes of ore per annum
- An 86 km slurry pipeline for the transportation of the concentrate from the mine site to the fertilizer complex located near
Hearst, ON
- 500,000 tonne P2O5 Phosphoric Acid facility
- 150,000 tonne P2O5 Super Phosphoric Acid facility
- 430,000 tonne Sulfur conversion plant with cogeneration capacity to provide all steam and electrical power to the complete fertilizer complex
- Granulation Plant with the capacity for producing 730,000 tonnes of ammoniated phosphates
- 125,000 tonne dry fertilizer storage and load out facility
- Railyard and infrastructure with inbound and outbound capacity of approximately 17,000 railcars per annum
Fertilizer Product Mix, 950,000 tonne capacity per annum
- 730,000 dry tonnes of ammoniated phosphate consisting of 480,000 tonnes of monoammonium phosphate (MAP) and 250,000 tonnes of nitrogen-phosphate fertilizer plus sulphur (NPS)
- 220,000 liquid tonnes of super phosphoric acid (SPA) basis 68% P2O5
(Note: All figures per annum)
The Company expects the delivery of the PEA to be slightly delayed, with completion now scheduled for mid-March, which is approximately six weeks later than previous guidance of
“The obvious complexities involved in a project of this magnitude have contributed to various time delays in completing the PEA,” stated
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