-- The ATA® Tailings Dewatering Plant forms part of Broken Hill Operations’ ramp-up of its 100% owned and operating Rasp Mine to its 750,000 tonnes per annum nameplate production rate, with practical completion of the dewatering plant targeted for 1H 2027.
Aerial view of mining operations in Broken Hill, New South Wales
The contract covers the engineering, procurement, manufacture, supply and installation of a single-train ATA® facility sized for 750,000tpa dry solids throughput. Works are scheduled to commence immediately following contract execution, with practical completion targeted in 3Q FY27.
The ATA® Tailings Dewatering Plant is a conventional mine tailings dewatering system enhanced by Clean TeQ Water’s proprietary ATA® rapid dewatering technology. It is designed to produce a filter cake suitable for in-pit filtered tailings stacking without the additional capital and operating costs typically associated with pressure filtration.
The Rasp Mine is long-established as one of the largest silver, lead and zinc deposit in the world; and the new ATA® Plant will support Broken Hill Mines’ transition away from the historical practice of higher operating cost ‘solar drying’ of tailings on site, which has previously limited processing throughput to 500,000 tonnes per annum. The ATA® process has been extensively tested on Rasp Mine tailings through laboratory and pilot-scale programs, consistently producing high-quality filtered tailings and meeting the mine’s required target tailings moisture content.
Clean TeQ Water and Broken Hill Operations Pty Ltd are also finalising a long-term Polymer Supply Agreement covering the supply of ATA® reagents and licensing of ATA® technology for the Rasp Mine.
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