Pilgangoora now home to the world’s biggest lithium ore sorter
Michael Clancy MD TOMRA, Dale Henderson MD and CEO Pilbara Minerals, WA Minister for Energy Reece Whitby MLA, Member for Pilbara Kevin Michel MLA.
Australia’s Pilbara Minerals has completed its P680 expansion project, with the new crushing and ore sorting facility at Pilgangoora, Western Australia, opened on Friday.
The new crushing and ore sorting facility is a significant technical development and is the biggest of its kind in the southern hemisphere and also the largest in the world for lithium processing, with an ore sorting capacity of more than 1 000 t/h.
The facility, which crushes and separates the lithium ore from waste, is the final component of the P680 project which increases Pilgangoora’s production capacity by about 30% to 680 000 t/y. It also underpins the next phase of expansion to one-million tonnes a year through the P1000 expansion project.
“The P680 project is the cornerstone of our strategic growth strategy to unlock the potential of the Pilgangoora asset.
“The benefits delivered by the P680 project are material, both through the increase in production capacity, but also by the commercial scale demonstration of industry leading sustainable technology that improves overall ore recovery in mining and reduces energy intensity through waste rejection. This further extends Pilbara Minerals’ competitive position as one of the world’s leading lithium producers,” said Pilbara MD and CEO Dale Henderson.
The A$404-million P680 project was supported through loans from Export Finance Australia and the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility, representing a total sum of $250-million from the Australian government.
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