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Share Price (13 July 2012 ) $ 0.085 Shares On Issue m 160.1 Market Capitalisation $m 13.6 Cash (30 June 2012) $m 4.7 Convertible Note $m 5.0 Enterprise Value $m 13.9
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• Transhipment is an obvious solution for
Cape Alumina’s projects
• Western Cape York has shallow water,
• sheltered seas; and • no infrastructure.
• A small port and barge loading facility will
be located in the Skardon / Ducie Rivers.
• The product is then loaded and exported to
market.
• Low environmental foot print, with minimal
onshore buildings, stockpiles and reduced
dust emissions is a key benefit of the
proposed transhipping system.
Cape alumina will develop its transhipping operations
from the ground up, with no existing infrastructure
available.
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Shallow draught barges
will tranship Cape
Alumina’s product 15 to
20 nautical miles offshore
to a mooring in the Gulf to
load Panamax and Cape
size ships
Cape Alumina is
proposing to employ self-
unloading barges, a
stable of CSL’s business.
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1. Excluding the Pisolite and Bauxite Hills project areas, the total resource potential is conceptual in nature and there has been insufficient work completed to
define a mineral resource across all of Cape Alumina’s exploration tenements at this stage. Estimated tonnage range is 300–400 Mt and the estimated
beneficiated grade range is 47-54 per cent Al2O3 and 8-12 per cent SiO2 assuming average 65 per cent recovery.
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• The Skardon River loading location is approximately 7-10 kms from the proposed beneficiation plant where export product will be stockpiled and loaded on to barges through a newly constructed barge loading terminal facility.
• Other options were considered for the barge loading facility. • Open coast • Ducie River across from Pisolite Hill proposed barge loading facility.
Barge loader – Bontang Coal Terminal
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• The studies examined the influence of barging on; • overall cost of operations and its impact on project viability, • the likely marine transport options and resulting costs
• They were evaluated using GHD’s logistics cost model for the transfer of bauxite from the barge loading facility to the export vessels, and on to market.
• The supply chain includes a number of steps that are typical for dry commodity
logistics systems. The supply chain includes: • Transfer of product from the barge terminal stockpile to barges. • Transport of product from the barge terminal to the ship loading point, and
empty return ; • Transfer of product from the barge to the receiving export vessel.
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• For the purposes of the GHD pre-feasibility study three barge types have been considered with a range of sizes (1500 to 4000 dwt).
• These barge types are defined as:
• Dumb Barge: no means of propulsion and is reliant on a tug boat
• Self-propelled: Fitted with a means of mechanical propulsion (no tug boat required)
• Self-unloading barges: Self-unloading conveying system
• Barge sailing distance and travel time is dependent on the marine environment, and the export vessel specifications. This is due to draught requirements and achievable water depths in the area.
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• Five transfer and transhipment options have been identified
• Option 1: Self-geared vessels: utilises Handy and Handymax class vessels that are self-geared with grab cranes to undertake direct transfer of product between the barge and the vessel.
• Option 2: Barge crane: the use of a barge crane operating with larger grabs. This type of operation allows the system to load all ship classes, including Panamax and Cape size vessels
• Option 3: Transfer platform: utilises Self Unloading Barges, capable of discharging at an average load rate of 3000 tph and 4000 tph.
• Option 4: Silo vessel: uses a converted Capesize vessel which is to be fitted with grab cranes to load ships of the same size or smaller, and to unload barges.
• Option 5: Transhipment vessel: utilises a converted Capesize vessel fitted with four grab cranes and a travelling ship loader.
• Each of the ship loading options has different performance characteristics that influence the type of barging operation and the overall system capacity.
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2.5MTPA – Barge Operations (Utilisation and $/tonne)
• The lowest cost option for the Skardon River location was the use of self-geared vessels; however, the level of system utilisation identified a high level of operational risk that may result in failing to meet the target export volume, and potential demurrage impact due to vessel delays. In addition, when the cost of export shipping is considered, the impact of small vessels resulted in a high cost option when delivered to the customer. F
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2.5 MTPA – Export Shipment + Barge Operations (Utilisation, USD/tonne)
• At an export volume of 2.5MTPA from the Skardon River location, the lowest cost to risk option was provided through the charter of a barge crane (750 tph), with 4,000 dwt or above dumb barges and tugs.
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5MTPA – Barge Operations (Utilisation and $/tonne)
• At an export volume of 5MTPA from the Skardon River location, the lowest cost to risk option was provided through the use of self -unloading barges (of maximum achievable size) and tugs utilising a high speed transhipment platform. F
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5MTPA – Barge Operations + Export Shipping (Utilisation, USD/tonnes)
• Where possible, large vessel classes should be used in order to achieve the high load rates during barge transhipment to minimise vessel time, and maximise economies of scale through large payloads to minimise the sea-freight cost to the customer, as this will be likely to affect the achievable contract price. F
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Self-Unloading Barge and transfer platform
Source: http://www.cslaustralia.com.au/transhipment_gallery.html
The GHD study concluded that self-unloading barges appear the optimal operation.
Self-unloading barges similar to those used at Arrium’s operations in South Australia are proposed for Cape Alumina’s projects.
• 4,000 tonne barges were considered for Bauxite Hills
• 10,000 tonne barges were considered for Pisolite Hills
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Further investigations required• Optimisation of transhipment operations
• Scale 2, 3, 5, >5? • Link projects – capture synergies
• Investigate alternatives that could deliver lower costs – capital & operating
• Investigate options for funding
• outsourcing transhipment; or • owner / operator
• Investigate options for early start up
• Facilitate lower initial production levels – charter / short term contract • Facilitate delivery time for long term barges
• Investigate the purchase of second hand equipment
INVESTIGATIONS WILL FEED INTO THE BANKABLE FEASIBILITY STUDIES
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Option 1: Self-geared vessels
Option 2: Barge crane
Source: http://www.demagcranes-ag.de/files/content/sites/global/files/Bilder/presse/bildarchiv/hafentechnologie/bild10g.jpg; http://www.lda.fr/img/310_dona-felicia.jpg
Source: http://www.adaro.com/AnnualReport2010/pages/en/04_management/3002.html
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Option 3: Transfer platform
Option 4: Silo vessel
Source: http://www.cnco.com.hk/fleet/bulk-carriers; http://www.swireshipping.com/images/stories/article/Fleet/bulkCarriers /MV_ERAWAN.pdf
Source: http://www.cslaustralia.com.au/transhipment_gallery.html
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Options 5: Transhipment vessel
Source: http://www.seabulk.com/goa.html
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Pisolite Hills - Barge Facilities The function of the barge loading terminal is to load beneficiated bauxite onto
self unloading barges of approximately 10,000 DWT. Production levels of 3, 5,
7 and 10 Mtpa have been considered.
The size of ship that the marine operation must be capable of handling is a
Panamax vessel up to 75,000 DWT with an option to facilitate loading of Cape
size vessels of 160,000DWT.
The facility would be designed to operate on a 24 hours per day, 7 days per
week basis and would only be shut down for scheduled maintenance,
emergency breakdowns and cyclones.
The limiting conditions for transhipping at sea would be winds gusting to 20 m/s.
The following port capacities have been
assumed: 3 Mtpa 5.0 Mtpa 7.0 Mtpa
Maximum load out rate t/h 2,500 2,500 2,500
Average load out rate t/h 1,250 1,385 1,385
Ship capacity (average) t 75,000 160,000 160,000
No. of vessels per year 40 33 47
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