Australian Bauxite Ltd. is pleased to report on early results from an exploration project carried out over the last 15 months involving rare earth elements that occur within the ABx bauxite horizon. Assaying is by the NATA-registered ALS commercial laboratory, Brisbane. This exploration project was undertaken despite the difficult pandemic year and major results are: - Clays at Binjour bauxite deposit in QLD were found to [...]
Australian Bauxite Ltd.'s engineering, research and development costs continued for Binjour Project, exploration lab research and for Alcore and totalled $442,000, as recorded in Appendix 5B, including Alcore's research into Aluminium Fluoride technology, bauxite beneficiation and exploration, excluding staff and other administration costs. ABx again tested our logistics and mining contractors in delivering a significant [...]
Australian Bauxite Ltd. is pleased to advise that Dr Mark Cooksey has permanently joined ABx's technology subsidiary ALCORE Limited . Dr Cooksey was first appointed General Manager of Alcore and then CEO , on a leave arrangement from Australia's national science agency, CSIRO. This appointment is now permanent, and he will lead Alcore's development and commercialisation of a new process for aluminium fluoride production [...]
Australian Bauxite Ltd. provides the following economic assessment of its 89% owned subsidiary ALCORE Limited and in particular work being undertaken to process aluminium fluoride by Alcore . - AlF3 is a strategically important mineral because it is an essential ingredient for aluminium smelting. It is also being investigated for advanced lithium-ion batteries - Australasian aluminium smelters currently rely entirely on [...]
Australian Bauxite Ltd. announces the Mining Lease Application for fully-funded Sunrise Bauxite Project, Binjour QLD. -ABx's wholly-owned subsidiary ABx3 Pty Ltd has lodged a mining lease application for the Sunrise Bauxite Project to develop the Binjour Bauxite discovery, located 25kms west of Gayndah and 115km southwest from the export port of Bundaberg, Queensland - see Fig 1* - Development costs totalling $15 million [...]
Australian Bauxite Ltd. during the quarter, delivered 509 tonnes of fertiliser grade bauxite from the Bald Hill Bauxite Project at Campbell Town to regularly supply bauxite to the fertiliser plant operated by Impact Fertilisers in Hobart, Tasmania. Corporate - Group available cash at the end of the quarter was $1.7 million and is currently is about $1.3 million. - Sales of cement and fertiliser grade bauxites totalled [...]
Australian Bauxite Ltd. provide the Quarterly Report and Activity Statement for the period to December 31, 2019. Sales & Operations - 32,477 tonnes of cement-grade bauxite was loaded and shipped from Bell Bay in early June. Sales of fertiliser grade bauxite from Bald Hill are on-going to plan, despite drought conditions - Binjour: ABx's bulk-sampling programs at the Binjour bauxite project in QLD have defined the optimum [...]
Australian Bauxite Ltd. is pleased to advise that Dr Mark Cooksey has been appointed General Manager of ALCORE Limited . The appointment commences 1 February 2020 for a sixmonth engagement. - Mark Cooksey appointed General Manager of Australian Bauxite Ltd.'s 90%-owned subsidiary, Alcore - Dr Cooksey has been granted 6 months leave from CSIRO to assist Alcore to commercialise development of aluminium fluoride production [...]
Australian Bauxite Ltd.'s Board of Directors has approved the lodgement of a mining lease application and related project strategy for ABx's flagship Binjour Bauxite Project located 115kms southwest of Bundaberg export port, central Queensland. Key Points: - ABx Directors and a Director of Rawmin Mining of India reviewed project plans, financial assessments, bauxite market developments and risk-factors over 3 days - A [...]
Bauxite producer, Australian Bauxite Ltd. considers its Binjour Project located 115kms southwest of Bundaberg Port to be the best source of gibbsite-trihydrate metallurgical grade bauxite in Queensland. Unlike other QLD bauxites, Binjour bauxite is ideal for low-temperature alumina refineries. - ABx's bulk-sampling programs at Binjour QLD in 2019 have defined the optimum Mining Lease Application and clarified the [...]
Australian Bauxite Ltd. has its first bauxite mine in Tasmania & holds the core of the Eastern Australian Bauxite Province. ABx's 12 bauxite tenements in Queensland, New South Wales & Tasmania totalled 719 km2 & were selected for good quality bauxite; near infrastructure connected to export ports; & free of socio-environmental constraints. All tenements are 100% owned, unencumbered & free of third-party royalties. ABx's [...]
Australian Bauxite Ltd.'s wholly-owned subsidiary, ALCORE Limited has conducted experimental reactions for the chemical refining of ABx bauxite and its components into aluminium fluoride and several valuable co-products. - ALCORE has proven it can: 1. Make aluminium fluoride from aluminium oxides, which is the principle component of bauxite and other aluminium-rich material that is amenable to treatment by ALCORE 2 [...]