Industrial Minerals


Australia phosphate pipeline

29 January 2010

by Mark Watts

Phosphate Australia eyes A$200m. pipeline from Highland Plains project to north coast

Keywords: Australia Phosphate, phosphate, fertiliser, pipeline, Highland Plains

Phosphate Australia Ltd is looking into building a A$200m. ($179m.) pipeline to carry phosphates from its Highland Plains project to the Gulf of Carpentaria on Australia’s north coast.

 

Located on the border of Queensland and the Northern Territory, the project has an inferred resource of 56m. tonnes at 16% phosphate.

 

Phosphate Australia has released a study on transporting the phosphate in a water-based solution over a distance of between...