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Western Cape York Bauxite Project
The Western Cape York Bauxite Project is situated in the world class Weipa Bauxite Province approximately 2000km NW of Brisbane in Queensland, Australia. The project comprises five mining lease applications, twelve granted Exploration Permits for minerals and six exploration permit applications covering over 2400km2 of land prospective for bauxite mineralisation. The applications contain several bauxite deposits discovered in the 1960’s and 70’s as well as numerous un-tested plateau areas of potential bauxite mapped using remote sensing techniques by Cape Alumina geologists.
Cape Alumina plans to initially evaluate key bauxite deposits for potential surface mining, beneficiation, haulage and barging to offshore-moored ships for export. The envisaged operations will likely use conventional mining and beneficiation techniques and large capacity, heavy-haul road trains coupled with barge-loaded Panamax ships for export. At the completion of each annual mining campaign subsoil and top soil will be replaced and re-spread, contoured and seeded in preparation for the wet season.
Cape Alumina will seek to prove sufficient reserves to justify and sustain an annual production and shipping rate of 5.0 to 7.0 mtpa of bauxite with ≥50% Al2O3 and <9% Reactive Silica over a 10 to 20 year mine life. Cape has been conducting a community consultation programme in Western Cape York and has negotiated land access for exploration with a number of aboriginal groups.
Locality Map showing the Weipa bauxite deposits.
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