AUSTRALIAN BAUXITE LTD ABX
AUSTRALIAN BAUXITE LIMITED
Tasmanian Bauxite Open for Business
Level 2, 131 Macquarie St
Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia
Phone: +61 2 9251 7177
Leon Hawker - Chief Operating Officer
Mobile: +61 418 334650
E: [email protected]
Bauxite - the Ore of Aluminium
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4 to 6 tonnes bauxite
2
2 tonnes alumina
1 tonne aluminium
2 bauxite types: hi & low temp
Hi & low temperature refineries
Electricity costs
Quality declining
Caustic soda main reagent cost
Alumina costs
Tonnages rising
Bauxite type, quality & cost
Alumina softness
Costs increasing
Lime, flocculant & heat for calcining
Operating amperage
Indonesian bans
Red mud settling & disposal
China “over-investment”
Indian bans
China “over-investment”
NEW TECHNOLOGY
Prices increasing
Alumina prices low for too long?
Increasing demand
ABx Bauxite Strategy
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Indonesia building refineries
Malaysia limited resources
Vietnam building refineries
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Rio Tinto $1.5 billion expansion of
bauxite supply to high-temp refineries
+30 Mtpa forecast
Gove
Weipa
Mitchell
Plateau
(Dormant)
ABx 5 to 10 Mtpa
low-temp bauxite sold to
low-temp refineries
World’s largest
alumina refineries
2 Binjour Project
Mainly too
low grade
to export
World’s largest bauxite &
alumina production
Darling
Ranges
ABX bauxite deposits (36)
Others’ bauxite projects (6)
Aluminium smelters (6)
Alumina refineries (8)
Eastern
Australian
Bauxite
Province
3 Goulburn Projects
1 Tasmanian Projects
Rio mainly exports high temperature bauxite to China’s high temp refineries
ABx’s sales of low temperature bauxite to low temperature refineries will
complement Rio’s sales. Australia can be the main supplier to China
Tasmania - Open for Business
• Bauxite potential
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• Low cost Quarry style operation
• Commercial environment gave an opportunity
 Good quality contractors
 Supportive Governments
 Ample workforce
• Infrastructure
 Port capacity
 Rail & Road network
• ABx attitude to Land, we only operate where we are welcome
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Projects Location & Infrastructure in Tasmania
Burnie
Bell Bay
Bridport
Scottsdale
DL-130
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Launceston
Rubble Flat
Nile Road Project
Fingal Rail Project
Bald Hill Project
Campbell Town
LEGEND
ABx Bauxite Lease
Hobart
Major Export Port
Aluminium Smelter
Coal Mines
Major Roads
5
Rail Lines
0
N
kilometres
100
Production
Path to Production
• Landowners
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 Respect their ownership
 Allow them to say YES
 Do as you say
• Community
 Engage key groups
• Government
 Brief all levels of Govt.
 Fed, State, Local and elected members
 Departments
• Associations
 TFGA
• Consultants & Contractors
 Make selections that fit your culture
 Treat them as part of the team
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Good Landholder Relations is the First Step
AUSTRALIAN BAUXITE LTD ABX
ABX endorses best practices on agricultural land to leave land and environment better
than we find it. We only operate where we are welcomed
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Action at site December ‘14
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Stornoway Mining & Screening
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Bald Hill Mine Tasmania
Triple deck dry screening
ROM Ore
Production
Bauxite products
Bauxite products
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TasRail Logistics Mine – Conara – Bell Bay
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Stornoway - Screening Technology
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TasRail - Conara Hardstand
TasPorts Bell Bay - Ship Modelling
QUBE Bell Bay - Ship loader
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ABx has been Welcomed to Tasmania
Now it is time for us and our Tassie Team
Partners to Deliver the Goods