SO4 Salt Lake Potash Limited

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Salt Lake Potash Limited

14 September 2020

 
 14 September 2020   AIM/ASX Code: SO4 
 
 
 SALT LAKE POTASH LIMITED 
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LAKE WAY PROJECT REACHES 60% COMPLETION

Salt Lake Potash Limited ( SO4 or the Company ) is pleased to provide an update on its Lake Way Project at Wiluna in Western Australia. The Project remains on schedule to deliver first SOP production in the March quarter of 2021.

HIGHLIGHTS

-- Total project is now 60% complete on an earned value basis.

-- Major vendor procurement packages over 90% commited with fixed costs.

-- At the process plant site concrete foundations poured by Flanco are more than 80% complete, installation of structural steel supplied by Metro Steel has commenced and first carbon steel tanks have been installed by Proweld.

-- Long lead procurement items have commenced arriving on site including the Veolia crystallisers with associated components and tanks, and transformers from Wilson.

-- Vendor packages currently in transit to site include lump breaker, attritioners, wet screens and centrifuges.

-- A ll permanent buildings are now on site and installed including the permanent village, construction village, warehouse, workshop, administration, reagents, laboratory, ablutions, crib rooms and 4G communications has been installed across site.

-- Development of On Lake infrastructure continues to progress. Work has commenced on the fourth of six pond trains and 62km of trenches have now been completed.

-- The Paleochannel drilling programme continues with the sixth bore hole now underway. All bores have intercepted basal sands in line with the model prediction.

TONY SWIERICZUK SO4 Chief Executive Officer

"On site activity will be accelerating over the coming weeks as we move into the peak construction phase of the process plant and non-process infrastructure. The SO4 owners team and GRES continue to do an outstanding job driving all workstreams on-schedule with first SOP production due in Q1'21."

OFF-LAKE Construction UPDATE

Progress at the process plant and non-process infrastructure site has accelerated in recent weeks. Structural steel has commenced being erected at site. Long lead time items are arriving and being assembled at site. The Veolia crystallisers arrived at the beginning of August, three weeks ahead of schedule. Many other packages are currently enroute to site for installation in Q4 2020.

ON-LAKE UPDATE

On-lake, the Company has commenced construction on the fourth pond train out of a total six. 62km of trenches have been completed, an incremental 14km since the end of the June quarter. The Paleochannel drilling campaign continues with the sixth hole currently being drilled at Pad 14 and all holes intersecting the basal sands in line with model prediction.

For further information or to view a full version of this announcement, including site layout and photos, please visit https://www.so4.com.au/asx-announcements/ or contact:

 
 Tony Swiericzuk / Richard Knights   Salt Lake Potash Limited                    Tel: +61 8 6559 5800 
 Colin Aaronson / Seamus Fricker     Grant Thornton UK LLP (Nominated Adviser)   Tel: +44 (0) 20 7383 5100 
 Derrick Lee / Peter Lynch           Cenkos Securities plc (Joint Broker)        Tel: +44 (0) 131 220 6939 
 Rupert Fane / Ernest Bell           Hannam & Partners (Joint Broker)            Tel: +44 (0) 20 7907 8500 
 

This announcement has been authorised for release by the Managing Director, Mr Tony Swiericzuk.

The information contained within this announcement is deemed to constitute inside information as stipulated under the Market Abuse Regulations (EU) No. 596/2014. Upon the publication of this announcement, this inside information is now considered to be in the public domain.

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