Sulfate of potash (SOP) junior Kalium Lakes Ltd., Balcatta, Western Australia, this week reported the successful onsite commissioning of the recently delivered salt harvester at its Beyondie SOP project, located 160 km southeast of Newman, in Western Australia.
The company announced the selection of the German-manufactured Wirtgen Harvester for the Beyondie project in November last year (GM Nov. 1, 2019). The Wirtgen 220 can produce up to 600 mt/h of harvested salts.
“As we approached the milestone of 30,000 mt of SOP brine pumped into our evaporation ponds, it was a timely opportunity to commission the harvester onsite and confirm the operational assumptions,” said Kalium Managing Director Brett Hazelden.
The company last month reported first SOP production at Beyondie had been pushed back from the previous target of December 2020 and now was anticipated in the third quarter of 2021 (GM May 22, p. 1).