Australian Bauxite confirms sale of 30,000 tonnes of cement-grade bauxite

Australian Bauxite Limited has confirmed a sale of 30,000 tonnes of bauxite from its Bald Hill Bauxite Project, Campbell Town, Northern Tasmania.

The company announced through its press release that it had been the successful tenderer for its next sale of seaborne cement-grade bauxite to be exported from Bell Bay Port of Launceston. Sales of cement-grade bauxite are scheduled to commence in March 2019.

Australian Bauxite has started contract negotiations for the mining, processing and blending at the mine site. The company contracted with QUBE Logistics at Bell Bay for the stevedoring services and stockpiling arrangements, in conjunction with TasPorts. Monson Shipping have provided Shipping Agents services and Briar Maritime have provided independent ship surveys to date.

The company’s Chief Operating Officer, Leon Hawker commented; “We have a lot of work ahead to achieve on-time, on-specification delivery of bauxite produced and blended to our customer’s requirements. We can ship efficiently from Bell Bay Port – an all-weather, 24/7 export port that can operate to high standards and good loading rates all year round. This is a core strength of our bauxite business.”

Marketing Manager, Paul Glover said: “Our bauxite is blended specifically to suit our cement-grade bauxite customer, which is what we do for each sale. It is very clean bauxite due to efficient processing at the mine and careful transport pit-to-port.”

“This negotiation was longer than usual because we are trying to introduce new products to customers. We provided samples from a suite of possible products, all prepared at our laboratory, supervised by Operations Manager, Nathan Towns who is expert in sampling of bauxite to ISO Standards.”

The company also announced that sales of fertiliser-grade bauxite are growing as the customer achieves good results by using ABx fertiliser-grade bauxite in its manufacturing of superphosphate fertiliser products.

Sales of fertiliser-grade bauxite are scheduled to recommence during the last week of January 2019.