BCI Minerals Limited (ASX:BCI) is in the construction phase of its 100% owned Mardie Salt & Potash Project, located 100 kilometres southwest of Karratha on the West Pilbara coast, it will be Australia’s largest solar salt project and rank third in scale globally.
Salt is used in thousands of products and applications including glass, paint, water purification, paper and building materials. Sulphate of Potash is a high value fertiliser.
Mardie will produce 5.35Mtpa of high-purity salt (>99.5% NaCl) and 140ktpa of sulphate of potash (SOP) (>52% K2O) via solar evaporation of seawater. Once completed the project will not have to rely on third party infrastructure, using its own export terminal to ship product to key Asian markets main construction commenced in Q1 2022. The Mardie project will generate 500 jobs during construction and an operational workforce of 200.
