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Wallmannsthal fluorspar Mine

Wallmannsthal Fluorspar Mine

Wallmannsthal Fluorspar Mine, fully permitted with a mining right granted and water use license issued, will be SepFluor’s second mining development project after Nokeng Fluorspar Mine. It has a SAMREC-compliant resource estimate of 7.9Mt at 45.78% CaF2 in situ grade. A detailed PFS has been concluded.

Location

  • ~20km north-east of Pretoria alongside the N1 highway
  • ~8km from the nearest railhead

Fluorspar deposit

  • Mineralisation extends across the outcrop surface area ~300m x 85m with drilling to 180m still open ended
  • Initial land purchases for pit area concluded
  • ~290 hectares land required for:
    • mining infrastructure
    • concentrator
    • tailings dam
  • 20-year LOM at ~400ktpa ROM with low strip ratio

Mining method and planned production

  • Updated PFS completed at the end of 2018
  • Conventional open pit mining method
  • Processing: crush-mill-float circuit
    • ~400ktpa ROM to 100ktpa acid grade / acidspar
  • 19ktpa metspar
  • Low strip ratio and low unit cost
Wallmannsthal Resource Statement 2022
Deposit Tonnes (‘000) Contained CaF2 (‘000t) CaF2 %
Measured 4 260 1 862 43.7
Indicated 2 985 1 394 46.7
Inferred 690 362 52.5
Total Mineral Resource 7 935 3 618 45.8
  • Mineral Resource estimated by Sound Mining Solutions in 2013
  • SAMREC-compliant Mineral Resource of 7.935Mt at average CaF2 grade of 45.8%
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