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SOP ponds in pilot trial

AUSTRALIAN Potash will start building pilot evaporation ponds at its Lake Wells sulphate of potash project in Western Australia’s Eastern Goldfields after securing approval from the Department of Mines and Petroleum, the Department of Water and the Department of Environment Regulation.

Karma Barndon
Lake Wells project area.

Lake Wells project area.

The pilot evaporation pond test-work program  – to be coordinated by consultants Novopro –  was designed to derisk key project input parameters and produce  bulk samples of potash salts to further the...

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