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Circum Minerals in final stage of advancing Danakil to production
November 6 2018
Circum Minerals is working through the last stage necessary – fund raising – to move its 100% owned Ethiopia-based Danakil project into construction.
And while the plan to build the operation will occur in four phases, the final operation will be a significantly sized operation – substantially larger than any of its African-focused potash peers.
This article first appeared in Mining Review Africa Issue 10, 2018
Situated in Ethiopia’s Afar region, Circum Minerals has been quietly advancing its project. With a mining licence in hand (awarded in April 2017), it has spent the last year optimising its definitive feasibility study which has seen it increase its potash production targets.
The original plan entailed producing 2 Mtpa of MOP (muriate of potash, KCl) and 750 000 tpa of SOP (sulphate of potash, K2SO4) explains COO, Duncan Bowker.
On the back of its optimised study, completed by African engineering expert SENET, the company is now looking to produce an additional 750 000 tpa, delivering 3.5 Mtpa potash in total.
These production volumes are significant and Circum Minerals is considering a phased approach to the project’s construction in order to de-risk implementation and reduce capital requirements.
“Our focus at present is to secure the necessary funding to move into construction, with the objective to raise the capital through a combination of debt and equity.
“With the money secured we will start construction in 2019 – which entails a two-year build period followed by a two-year ramp up to full production. According to this schedule, we will produce our first SOP towards the end of 2021,” Bowker outlines.
The remaining phases will subsequently be constructed and funded out of cash flow.