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Harvest expands mining area

23rd September 2019

By: Creamer Media Reporter

     

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Aim-quoted Brazilian fertiliser producer Harvest Minerals has expanded the current mining area and added additional run of mine (ROM) storage capacity at its Arapua project, where it produces KPFértil, a multi-nutrient direct application natural remineraliser.

The company increased the size of the current openpit by stripping the soil cover from an area of about 6 000 m2 and exposing 70 000 t of weathered kamafugite, which is being mined using the company's own equipment. 

Owing to the heavily weathered nature of the ore, it required no blasting and was simply being loaded onto trucks by a loader to be taken to the ROM storage area. As part of this work, a new ROM storage area has been created adjacent to the pit.

Harvest says it has removed of 10 000 t of topsoil, which it stored in the organic stockpile, where it will be used for environmental restoration at a later date.

"In order to meet current sales and to ensure we have sufficient stock for the start of next season, we have expanded the current mining area,” chairperson Brian McMaster said on Monday.

He added that the expanded ROM storage facilities would also provide Harvest with more flexibility in how it handled its ore, and in how could further develop production and product storage facilities going forward. 

Edited by Creamer Media Reporter

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