Reward Minerals is set to acquire the Beyondie potash plant in Western Australia for $2.13 million.
The acquisition will be key in Reward updating the engineering scoping study for its Carnarvon potash project, with the company able to use the newly acquired plant components.
Reward chief executive officer Lorry Hughes said the acquisition was strategic, low-cost, and potentially transformative.
“Reward aspires to use its technologies and experience in combination with components of the Beyondie plant to establish a new facility at significantly reduced capital cost relative to that indicated in Reward’s September 2023 engineering scoping study (ESS),” Hughes said.
“The 2023 ESS demonstrated that a technically sound and commercially attractive operation could be established utilising the Reward process and reject brines from typical seawater solar salt operations that exist at several established or proposed development sites in north-west Western Australia.”
Reward is finalising an ESS update, with specific components from the plant acquisition and capital cost estimates to be included.
“The use of alternative new processing technologies which are currently under development by Reward will also be included in the ESS update to determine which process and potassium sulphate product is the most attractive to produce,” Hughes said.
“The Beyondie plant acquisition is another key step toward commercialisation of Reward’s processing technology that has the potential to transform the SOP industry in our view.”