Next 30,000 Tonne Bauxite Sale Confirmed
Sydney, July 27, 2017 AEST (ABN Newswire) - Emerging bauxite producer, Australian Bauxite Limited (
ASX:ABX) (ABx) is pleased to announce that its next bauxite sale has been confirmed as follows:
- Tonnage: 30,000 tonnes +/- 10% (ie. 33,000 tonnes maximum)
- Product: Cement-grade bauxite, blended to the customer's specification
- Source of Bauxite: Bald Hill Bauxite Project, Campbell Town, Northern Tasmania
- Dispatch Port: Bell Bay Port of Launceston, Tasmania (see Figure 1 in the link below)
- Delivery date: Before 30 September 2017
- Point of sale: Free alongside "FAS" (ie. delivered to the ship's side)
- Ship loading: Customer's account
- Basis of tonnes: As measured by independent ship's survey
- Invoice dates: 90% payable on delivery to berth
10% remainder payable on ship's survey tonnage.
- Payment Terms: 7 days from invoice dates
Land Transport Contract Finalised
ABx has issued the road transport contract to Dave Wagner & Son Pty Ltd at a competitive rate. Trucking arrangements have been agreed with all stakeholders on the same terms as for previous shipments.
Wagners is the transport company that provided the road haulage for previous shipments that were delivered successfully on time, meeting the strict tonnage-specification targets and complying with the all-important community requirements.
In addition to achieving a satisfactory rate for the land transport, ABx also considered this to be the best way to assure tight quality controls that ABx wishes to be known for in the market.
Port Stevedoring Contract Finalised
The shipping contract and the cost of ships' loading will be the responsibility of the customer in this instance.
ABx has contracted with QUBE Logistics at Bell Bay for the stevedoring services and the stockpiling arrangements, in conjunction with TasPorts.
ABx's Chief Operating Officer, Leon Hawker commented; "We have a proven record of on-time delivery of large tonnage cargoes of bauxite produced and blended to our customer's requirements. We also can ship efficiently from Bell Bay Port - an all-weather, 24/7 export port that can operate to high standards all year round. This is a core strength of our business."
ABx's Logistics Manager, Paul Glover commented; "Our bauxite is being blended specifically to suit our cement-grade bauxite customer, which is what we do for each sale. It is very clean bauxite due to efficient processing by Stornoway contractors at the Bald Hill mine and careful transport pit-toport by Wagners, in close coordination with QUBE stevedores and TasPorts. Our customers appreciate that ABx bauxite is the best favour they can do for themselves and their cement plant."
This sale is a continuation of a significant ongoing business, which is due to be supplemented by additional purchasing from several offshore centres.
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About ABx Group Limited
ABx Group Limited (ABx) (ASX:ABX) started as a bauxite miner in Tasmania in 2014 & controls the Eastern Australian Bauxite Province. In 2020 to 2023, ABx also discovered Australia’s only true ionic adsorption clay Rare Earth Elements resource at Deep Leads in pine plantations 40km west of Launceston with a JORC-compliant resource of 89 million tonnes from only 29% of the mineralised outline, averaging 844 ppm total rare earth oxides that is the most enriched in the critically important rare earths, Dy and Tb, of any Australian REE deposit.
ABx has also developed a proprietary technology to produce fluorine chemicals from an aluminium smelter waste product and return the fluorine back into the smelters, thus reducing reliance on imported aluminium fluoride.
ABx has committed a large proportion of its expenditure into Research and Development and has found ways to capitalise on the main strengths of its bauxite type which is very clean, free of all deleterious elements and can be separated into different product streams using physical, chemical and geophysical methods. It has produced and marketed specialist bauxite products for the manufacturers of fertiliser, cement with high late strength for major infrastructure such as bridges and is in the advanced stages of approvals for production of metallurgical bauxite from its Binjour Bauxite deposit with JORC-compliant resources of 37 million tonnes of bauxite, in a joint development with a Chinese-focussed Australian trading company Good Importing International.
ABx is also preparing to produce fertiliser grade and cement grade bauxite from its DL130 bauxite quarry in northern Tasmania, 40km west of Launceston. This quarry is sited in the middle of the large Deep Leads REE deposit and may one day be a site for heap leaching of the REE using a low-cost, benign leachate with the same acidity as apple juice or tea.
ABx endorses best practices on agricultural land, strives to leave land and environment better than we find it. We only operate where welcomed.
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