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Saudi Arabia
Al Khabra Mine

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 Location:
45 km NE from Turaif, Saudi Arabia

  Address:
P.O. BOX 68861
Riyadh
Saudi Arabia
11537
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Overview

StageProduction
Mine TypeOpen Pit
Commodities
  • Phosphate rock
Mining Method
  • Truck & Shovel / Loader
  • Backfill
Processing
  • Dry Screening
  • Dewatering
  • Acid plant
  • Sulfuric acid (reagent)
  • Calcining
  • Solvent Extraction
  • Filter press plant
  • Reverse osmosis
  • Purification & crystallization
  • Desliming
  • Flotation
  • X-Ray Transmission (XRT) sorting
Mine Life2045


Owners

Source: p. 22, 48
CompanyInterestOwnership
Saudi Basic Industries Corporation 15 % Indirect
The Mosaic Company 25 % Indirect
Maaden Saudi Arabian Mining Co. 60 % Indirect
Maaden Waad Al Shamal Phosphate Company (MWSPC) (operator) 100 % Direct
Ma’aden Wa’ad Al-Shamal Phosphate Company (MWSPC) was incorporated on 27 January 2014 in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which is also its principal place of business and is owned:
- 60% by Saudi Arabian Mining Company (“Ma’aden”);
- 25% by Mosaic Phosphate B.V., a foreign shareholder, a limited liability company registered in Netherlands wholly owned by The Mosaic Company (“Mosaic”);
- 15% by Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (“SABIC”).

Deposit Type

  • Sedimentary


Summary:

The deposit is limited by the Ha’il arch complex in the east, Wadi Sirhan, Quraymiz area in the South, and Iraqi and Jordanian borders in the north and the west.

In the Al Khabra area, the Arqah Phosphorite member is repeatedly exposed by the set of northwest trending faults. The member varies in thickness from 1.3 metres to 5.6 metres and averages 3.09 metres. The phosphates layers comprise an original succession of carbonate-cemented sub-cycles, now represented by friable, semi-friable and residual carbonate-cemented phosphorite. Graded bedding is ubiquitous; with the pelletal grain size decreasing upwards in successive sub-cycles (fining upwards). Occasional barren limestone and chert interbeds are documented within the phosphorite sequence.


Mining Methods

  • Truck & Shovel / Loader
  • Backfill


Summary:

Al Khabra is an open pit mine producing phosphate ore for processing into phosphate concentrate.

Conventional truck and shovel with drilling and blasting has been selected for the majority of the mining operation, but includes a component of ripping in waste material of thickness less than 3m. This method is expected to bring operational efficiency, best selectivity, and low dilution factors.

Waste rock is used to progressively backfill the mine void.


Crushing and Grinding
Flow Sheet: Source
Crusher / Mill TypeModelSizePowerQuantity
Impact crusher
Blade mill

Summary:

Run of mine rock with a maximum size of 150mm is conveyed to the beneficiation plant and is screened and sorted to remove chert which is discharged to the tailings storage facility. An optical sorter and X-ray transmission (XRT) sorter are employed to remove siliceous material, which is also discharged to the TSF. These sorting techniques contribute to improved water and energy efficiency in mining industries, by ensuring waste materials are removed, rather than proceeding through the process for treatment. Non chert material is discharged into the secondary crushing circuit (impact crushers) and the crushed product is re-cycled back over the pre-screen to deliver a uniform size to a blended ore stockpile.

Dust collector systems will extract dust, which is filtered through a dust collection filter, with the clean air being vented to atmosphere. Periodic pulse air is used to knock the dust particles off the dust collection filter. The dust particles fall into the dust collection silo through a rotary valve, which ensures a vacuum pressure is maintained within the dust extraction system. The dust collection silo will be periodically emptied by a vacuum truck. Additionally, process water is sprayed on the blended ore stockpile to control dust.

The blended ore is fed into blade mills with process water, to form a slurry, which is screened and ground to separate slimes. The purpose of the Blade Mill is not to break the ore down in size, but to break up the mud and clays and clean the rocks surface. A dust collector system is included here also. Hydrosizer units are used to achieve size classification by using up-flow water flow to remove finer smaller particles from the slurry. Water is drained from the sized material and de-watered sized ore tested to determine the grade of the sized material. If it meets the required grade it is milled/washed and pumped to the Phosphoric acid plant. If it fails to meet the required grade it is milled and sent to a flotation circuit.


Processing

  • Dry Screening
  • Dewatering
  • Acid plant
  • Sulfuric acid (reagent)
  • Calcining
  • Solvent Extraction
  • Filter press plant
  • Reverse osmosis
  • Purification & crystallization
  • Desliming
  • Flotation
  • X-Ray Transmission (XRT) sorting

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Summary:

Oversize material undergoes further grinding, milling, crushing. If the sized material meets the required grade specification it will be pumped to the concentrate tank, if not it will be pumped to the de-slime cyclones from which underflow is directed to the floatation process, while overflow is thickened using flocculant before being dewatered.

The beneficiation plant uses open circuit reverse flotation whereby the gangue minerals (silica and carbonate) are floated and the phosphate mineral is depressed reporting out the bottom of the last cell. Flotation reagents (amine, sulphonated fatty acid and phosphoric acid) and process water are added before the slurry is fed to one of the six floatation trains. Froth from the floatation circuit gravitates to the tailings thickener, and the concentrate flows out from the bottom of the last cell into a pump hopper.

The concentrate is pumped to thickening cyclones located above the belt filter plant. Thickening cyclone unde ........


Production:

CommodityUnits2021202020192018
Phosphate rock kt  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required1,400
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Operational Metrics:

Metrics2021202020192018
Annual production capacity  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required3 Mt of phosphate rock concentrate3 Mt of phosphate rock concentrate
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Reserves at December 31, 2020:

CategoryTonnage CommodityGradeContained Metal
Proven 290 Mt P2O5 16.8 %
Probable 96.1 Mt P2O5 15.7 %
Proven & Probable 386.1 Mt P2O5 16.5 % 63.8 Mt
Measured 300.2 Mt P2O5 16.7 %
Indicated 107.2 Mt P2O5 15.5 %
Inferred 6.5 Mt P2O5 17.6 %
Total Resource 413.9 Mt P2O5 16.4 % 67.9 Mt

Financials:

Units20212019
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Corporate Filings & Presentations:

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