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Khemisset Project

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Overview

Mine TypeUnderground
StagePermitting
Commodities
  • Potash
  • NaCl
Mining Method
  • Room-and-pillar
  • Continuous
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SnapshotEmmerson Plc is pleased to announce the receipt of the Mining Licence for its 100% owned Khemisset Potash Project from the Moroccan Ministry of Energy, Mines and the Environment.

Owners

SourceSource
CompanyInterestOwnership
Emmerson Plc 100 % Indirect
Khemisset is 100% owned by Emmerson.

Contractors

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Deposit type

  • Sandstone hosted
  • Sedimentary

Summary:

The Khemisset Basin is a sedimentary basin of Triassic age, initiated by the opening of the mid-Atlantic ridge. The sedimentary sequence of the basin is characterised by early continental red bed deposits including iron-rich sandstones. Continued subsidence and extensional faulting in the late Triassic and early Jurassic resulted in the deposition of clay and extensive evaporite sequences, characteristic of a closed marine basin and thought to exceed 1,000m in thickness in some areas. The evaporitic sequence is primarily comprised of halite, gypsum and locally, sylvite and carnallite.

The Khemisset basin was characterised by a continental slope leading into a shallow marine environment with the deposition of carbonate banks and the formation of a carbonate platform with associated dolostone and dolomitic limestone deposits. Around this time Western Morocco also experienced the deposition of extrusive basalts. Subsidence in the Moroccan continental margin continued into the Middle Cretaceous, until a period of uplift in the Late Cretaceous leading to salt diapirism; the intrusion of salt into surrounding host rock to form domes. As the rate of subsidence slowed, the basin became erosive leading to the deposition of a thick Tertiary sedimentary sequence of marls and conglomerates.

The evaporite sequence is equivalent to the Lower Salt Formation observed within the Khemisset basin and represents a regional target for potash exploration.

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Comminution

Crushers and Mills

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Processing

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Production

CommodityProductUnitsAvg. Annual
Potash MOP kt 735
NaCl De-icing salt kt 1,000

Operational metrics

Metrics
Annual ore mining rate  ....  Subscribe
* According to 2020 study.

Production Costs

CommodityUnitsAverage
Cash costs NaCl USD  ....  Subscribe
Site cash costs (produced) Potash USD  ....  Subscribe
Cash costs Potash USD  ....  Subscribe
All-in sustaining costs (AISC) NaCl USD  ....  Subscribe
All-in sustaining costs (AISC) Potash USD  ....  Subscribe
Assumed price NaCl USD  ....  Subscribe
Assumed price Potash USD  ....  Subscribe
* According to 2020 study / presentation.

Operating Costs

Currency2020
UG mining costs ($/t milled) USD 7.8 *  
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G&A ($/t milled) USD  ....  Subscribe
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* According to 2020 study.

Project Costs

MetricsUnitsLOM Total
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After-tax Cash Flow (LOM) $M USD  ......  Subscribe
After-tax NPV @ 8% $M USD  ......  Subscribe
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Mine Management

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