{"id":1014,"date":"2016-10-04T04:08:53","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T04:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beachminerals.org\/?p=1014"},"modified":"2021-09-23T15:09:16","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T09:39:16","slug":"worlds-largest-alluvial-garnet-mine-enters-production-phase-red-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beachmineral.com\/ta\/worlds-largest-alluvial-garnet-mine-enters-production-phase-red-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"The world’s largest alluvial garnet mine enters production phase in the Red Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"

The world’s largest alluvial garnet mine enters production phase in the Red Centre<\/h1>\n
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\"The<\/a>PHOTO:<\/strong> The Hartz Range mine, which is located approximately 200km from Alice Springs, is a significant project for the global garnet industry. (Supplied: Australian Abrasive Minerals.)<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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MAP: <\/strong>Alice Springs 0870<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Harts Range Garnet Mine, which is located approximately 200 kilometres from Alice Springs, has reached a major milestone after reaching its production phase.<\/p>\n

Australian Abrasive Minerals commenced exploring for garnets in early-2010 and found the world’s largest alluvial deposit of garnet, which is used industrially in blast cleaning, water jet cutting and various other mining applications.<\/p>\n

Chief executive Robert Brand said the Harts Range project was a huge win for the surrounding local communities, as the mine became a major source for the global garnet market.<\/p>\n

“This is the only garnet mine in the Northern Territory, but more significantly it’s only the second garnet mine in Australia, the other one is in Western Australia.<\/p>\n

“There’s only five major garnet mines in the world and the other three are located in India, so this is a significant mine for the worldwide garnet industry.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“It’s unique, it’s valuable, it serves a good opportunity for Indigenous employment, it makes a significant economic contribution to the local region and that will go on for a long time.”<\/p>\n

A pioneering project for the Territory<\/h2>\n

Mr Brand said the Harts Range Garnet Mine was the first mine to be developed in the southern part of the Territory in more than 30 years.<\/p>\n

He estimated the Harts Range Garnet reserve would have a mine life of at least 29 years at full production and presented many export opportunities.<\/p>\n

“This particular mine, similar to other garnet mines around the world, is characterised by very long life mines that keep producing for a long time,” he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“There’s a considerable upside on that, there is more mineral available on our mineral lease that will support a mine site for a further 30 years.<\/p>\n

“One third of garnet production is consumed within Australia and two thirds is exported principally to the United States and also to Europe.”<\/p>\n

Indigenous employment opportunities<\/h2>\n

Mr Brand said there would be significant employment opportunities for the Indigenous communities surrounding the Harts Range Garnet Mine.<\/p>\n

“The mine is within four kilometres of the township of Harts Range [and] it’s approximately two hours drive by road from Alice Springs, therefore we operate a drive-in, drive-out operation whereby all of our workforce will be sourced from around the region,” he said<\/p>\n

“At the moment one third of the workforce employed at the mine site is Indigenous labour and we’re quite keen to see those ratios are maintained.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“We’ve conducted, in the last two months, intensive training for the local Indigenous employees and they are very supportive of what we’re trying to do.<\/p>\n

“I think there’s a good endeavour for both sides to make this a success.”<\/p>\n

Local economic benefits<\/h2>\n

Mr Brand added there would be economic benefits for local contractors, suppliers and small businesses.<\/p>\n

“As well as employment we source local contractors to do work for us,” he said.<\/p>\n

“We have local suppliers and service providers that provide us with goods and services for maintenance and ongoing operation of the plant.<\/p>\n

“And our village will be using the local general store at Harts Range, for example, for all of its purchases and that will have a direct impact on the local community.<\/p>\n

“The most important thing about this mine is [that] it’s sustainable for the long term and there’s benefits that will continue for a long time to come.”<\/p>\n

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The world’s largest alluvial garnet mine enters production phase in the Red Centre PHOTO: The Hartz Range mine, which is located approximately 200km from Alice Springs, is a significant project for the global garnet industry. (Supplied: Australian Abrasive Minerals.) MAP: Alice Springs 0870 Harts Range Garnet Mine, which is located approximately 200 kilometres from Alice … Continue reading “The world’s largest alluvial garnet mine enters production phase in the Red Centre”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-media-news"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"ta","enabled_languages":["en","ta"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"ta":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beachmineral.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beachmineral.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beachmineral.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beachmineral.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beachmineral.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/beachmineral.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2018,"href":"https:\/\/beachmineral.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014\/revisions\/2018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beachmineral.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beachmineral.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beachmineral.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}