Pink Gold - Jansen "a mine of the future"Lots of new technology being designed and used by BHP at their Sask Jansen Potach mine.
I've not invested in a potash equity in over 2 decades, so I am much behind the times with regards to all things potash mining.
I recently checked out a bunch of information and material surrounding the Jansen potash stage 1 project, so learnt much and impressed. here is one video BHP put out.
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I took notes because it contained many new innovations that interest me.
The first half of the video deals with mine site components and build out, highlighting the neat innovations being used..
The second half of the video goes into operations/ steps from mining the ore until the automated train car loading. This suggest the workflow is very much automated, I can see AXE proposed drying has to be lower opex, faster h2o removal, faster than existing method or a combination of these inorder to replace existing.
With regards to drying, the video does not drill into this area only to say the dry processing used centrifuge and drying. I know ifrom other industries centrifuging is more for separating solids and particles (probably liquids and water ) and its the combustion heated air (or recycled heat from other plant site processes) that does the actual drying in combination with either fans or turbine wicking away the moisture. So I guess its off the shelf units and nothing to write about.
But because this Jansen is the mine of the future using innovations, I can see them drawn to an AXE proposal.
Perhaps AXE will one day write up a whitepaper on their proposal for industrial scale potash drying.