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Kalgoorlie Rare Earths
Processing Facility
Project Update – September 2021
Out and about at Diggers & Dealers During the conference, we were pleased to sign a
Water Agreement with the City of Kalgoorlie-
Lynas presented at the Diggers & Dealers Mining
Boulder to provide all of our processing water. As
Forum in August and the team hosted an
well as providing reliable and cost-effective supply,
exhibitor’s booth for the second time. It was great
recycling a precious commodity like water is in line
to see so many attendees visit our booth to talk to
the team about our Rare Earths Processing with our best practice sustainability principles.
Facility project and business opportunities.
The team provided information about the
Project Announcements
Kalgoorlie project and the status of the
environmental impact assessment. We also Lynas Rare Earths was awarded a $14.8 million
hosted a tour of the Kalgoorlie site for investors. grant as part of the Australian government’s
Modern Manufacturing Initiative in July 2021.
The grant will enable us to commercialise an
industry-first Rare Earth carbonate refining
process that has been developed by our inhouse
research and development team.
The process will be installed during the
construction of the Kalgoorlie Rare Earth
Processing Facility and the grant is expected to
Kam Leung, VP Upstream, presenting at Diggers and Dealers contribute approximately 50 per cent of the
Mining Forum 2021 implementation cost.
The new process has been tested at bench scale
and has proven effective in producing a higher
purity Rare Earth carbonate that can feed the
Lynas Malaysia plant as well as the proposed U.S.
Rare Earth processing facility.
In keeping with our commitment to sustainable and
responsible Rare Earths production, the new
refining process will contribute to reducing
chemical consumption and processing costs. You
can read the full announcement on our website at
www.lynasrareearths.com.
Kam Leung and City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder CEO John Walker
signing the recycled water agreement
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Kalgoorlie Rare Earths
Processing Facility
Project Update – September 2021
Site Visits
In September we hosted the Western Power
Board in Kalgoorlie. They toured the Kalgoorlie
site and viewed the preliminary site works and our
vision for the REPF.
During the visit Lynas signed on as a partner for
Western Power’s innovative Eastern Goldfields
Load Permissive Scheme (ELPS), which helps
resources companies secure a vital supply of
affordable and reliable energy.
The partnership enables access to network
capacity when it’s available and curtails supply
when it is not, using an autonomous process Wilson Tucker, MLC Visit
managed by Western Power’s network operations
centre.
Kiln Update
Excitingly, the kiln is on its way to Western
Australia. This will be a large kiln, 6 metres in
diameter and 110 metres long. The components
will come from Australia and Europe, in five
separate pieces. At site, they will be lifted into
place and welded together. It will be quite a
spectacle to see it come together.
Western Power & Kam Leung MoU Signing
The Kalgoorlie team also hosted Wilson Tucker
MLC, Member for Mining and Pastoral and briefed
him on the Kalgoorlie project. We shared with him Kiln pieces on their way to Australia
the importance of rare earths and their uses in our
everyday lives and in future facing technologies Curtin University Careers Open Day
such as electric and hybrid vehicles.
We held a booth at the Curtin Kalgoorlie Career
Open Day which allowed industry partners to
engage with prospective and current university
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Kalgoorlie Rare Earths
Processing Facility
Project Update – September 2021
students, as well as members of the wider Key Figures
Kalgoorlie-Boulder community.
• $500m project including associated upgrades
High school students from years 9 to 12 also
at the Lynas Malaysia plant
attended, and we spoke to over 150 students
throughout the day and answered questions about
• Approx. 290 positions expected to be
Rare Earths and careers at Lynas.
created during construction (including direct
workforce on the project)
• $204 million in output expected to be
generated during construction over 2 years
• Up to 128 new jobs created as a result of the
investment, bringing our Goldfields
workforce to over 200 people
• Increase of almost 400 direct and indirect
positions expected in the Goldfields-
Esperance region (including the direct Lynas
Lynas booth at Curtin University Careers Day employment)
• Approx. $413 million annual increase in
Recent Site Images Goldfields-Esperance regional output
expected ones the processing facility is
operational, approximately $200 million of
which will be direct output of the project.
Artist Impression of Kalgoorlie RE Processing Facility
Lynas Rare Earths Ltd Level 1, 45 Royal St, East Perth, WA 6004
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