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Originally posted by triage:
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So what explains the poor performance of Olaroz in the September quarter: 2 weeks maintenance work, low evaporation rates or the underperforming liming plant? With the liming plant only operating at 70-75% of design if all the product is passing through the liming plant that would suggest that maximum annual production would be limited to about 13k tonnes pa so obviously it is not a 1 to 1 relationship between the performance of the liming plant and production. I'm confused, particularly on the issue of whether Olaroz stage 1 will ever be able to produce at nameplate.. If it cannot then clearly the combined stage 1 plus stage 2 production target of 42,500 tonnes pa is just make-believe. (thanks again audax).
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Originally posted by triage:
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So what explains the poor performance of Olaroz in the September quarter: 2 weeks maintenance work, low evaporation rates or the underperforming liming plant? With the liming plant only operating at 70-75% of design if all the product is passing through the liming plant that would suggest that maximum annual production would be limited to about 13k tonnes pa so obviously it is not a 1 to 1 relationship between the performance of the liming plant and production. I'm confused, particularly on the issue of whether Olaroz stage 1 will ever be able to produce at nameplate.. If it cannot then clearly the combined stage 1 plus stage 2 production target of 42,500 tonnes pa is just make-believe. (thanks again audax).
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From memory the Stage 2 has larger pond area per nameplate tonne PA by~ 40%. So It sounds like they are acknowledging that the stage 1 pond area was underdone, however from memory it was marketed as additional security to cover sub average weather.
