Port Hedland vs Geraldton Port29 Oct 2021 15:46
Apart from our extremely low strip ratio, another reason why our Operating costs are low is that:
We are 435km to Port Hedland.
Fenix’s nearest Port is Geraldton Port which is 490km.
If you are using Geraldton Port, you have to warehouse all your ore. If you look at Google Maps you will see why:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@-28.7767349,114.6011659,1013m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en
Geraldton Port is in a residential area with a nice beach and yacht club etc. You can’t have the ore blowing around.
So at Geraldton you have the added cost of warehousing it, higher processing costs due to much smaller scale and most importantly you are limited by how much your warehouse can store and by the size of the ships that can come in, which explains their higher shipping costs.
We don’t have that problem at Utah Point Berth, which is a public facility Open Access Berth, which 500,000t ships can use.
Plus the fact that we are so close to Newman, means that we don’t need to build any accommodation facilities and can easily attract workers via contractor company such as https://www.maca.net.au/
So these are important key advantages for UFO.