Clean TeQ Water has been awarded a contract by Broken Hill Operations, a wholly owned subsidiary of Broken Hill Mines, for a new ATA Tailings Dewatering Plant at the Rasp mine in New South Wales, Australia.
The design and construct contract covers the engineering, procurement, manufacture, supply
and installation of the ATA plant: a single-train facility sized for 750,000-tonnes-per-annum dry solids throughput, producing a filter cake suitable for in-pit filtered tailings stacking without the additional capital and operating costs of pressure filtration.
“The deployment of ATA technology at Rasp significantly enhances BHO’s tailings dewatering capacity, reducing both ongoing operating and capital costs for the mine,” said Clean TeQ Water CEO Peter Voigt. “Clean TeQ Water and BHO have been working collaboratively together for over two years on this opportunity, with the arrangements announced today, delivering Clean TeQ Water near-term construction revenue and, on execution of the polymer supply agreement, the prospect of long-term recurring revenue.”
The companies are also negotiating a polymer supply agreement, under which Clean TeQ Water is proposed to be appointed as the supplier of the proprietary ATA reagents, with BHO also granted an ongoing license to operate the ATA technology at the Rasp mine.
Works are scheduled to commence immediately following contract execution, with practical completion targeted in the third quarter of FY27.
The Rasp mine, long-established as one of the largest silver, lead and zinc deposits in the world, operates in Broken Hill, NSW.
Source: Clean TeQ Water