Yangibana rare earths project, Australia
Name of the Project
Yangibana rare earths project.
Location
Upper Gascoyne region, Western Australia.
Project Owner/s
ASX-listed Hastings Technology Metals.
Project Description
The project includes the development of five openpit mines, groundwater abstraction, an on-site processing plant, tailings storage facilities, access and haul roads, as well as supporting infrastructure such as accommodation facilities, administration buildings and an airstrip.
The project proposes the construction of a beneficiation and hydrometallurgy processing plant, which will treat rare earths deposits, predominantly monazite, hosting high neodymium and praseodymium contents to produce a mixed rare earths carbonate that will be further refined into individual rare-earth oxides at processing plants overseas.
The one-million-tonne-a-year operation is expected to produce 15 000 t/y of mixed rare earths concentrate and about 8 850 t/y of total rare-earth oxides over 13 years.
Potential Job Creation
Not stated.
Net Present Value/Internal Rate of Return
The project has an after-tax net present value, at an 8% discount rate, of A$549-million and an internal rate of return of 28%, with a payback of 2.6 years.
Capital Expenditure
The project’s cost was revised in March 2019 to $427-million.
Planned Start/End Date
Not stated.
Latest Developments
Hastings Technology has reported a 37% increase in the total rare-earth oxide (TREO) reserve estimate at its Yangibana project.
The estimate is currently 16.7-million tonnes grading 0.95% TREO.
TREO tonnage has increased by 15%, to 158 400 t, with contained neodymium/praseodymium increasing by 18%, to 58 300 t.
The increased ore reserve includes a maiden ore reserve for the Simon’s Find deposit, which is estimated to host about 1.7-million tonnes at 0.57% TREO, of which 52% is neodymium-praseodymium.
Key Contracts, Suppliers and Consultants
Wave International (project management and definitive feasibility study lead); Hastings Technology Metals, Widenbar and Associates (geology and resource evaluation); Southern Geoscience (geophysical Interpretation); Snowden Mining Industry Consultants (reserve estimation, mine planning and design, geotechnical); ATC Williams (tailings management); ALS, ANSTO, KYSPY Met, SGS Minerals (pilot plant and metallurgical testwork); Tetra Tech Proteus (process plant and metallurgical testwork, process plant design, as well as utilities and infrastructure); Wave International (infrastructure); Enperitus Radpro, JHI, Bennelongia, Ecoscape (environment); JDA (surface water hydrology); Groundwater Resource Management (groundwater hydrogeology); Trajectory (mine closure cost estimates); Tetra Tech Proteus and Wave International (capital and operating cost); Hastings Technology Metals, Argus Metals International (market analysis); and Qube Logistics (logistics study).
Contact Details for Project Information
Hastings Technology Metals, email info@hastingstechmetals.com.
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