Sedgman builds on critical minerals capabilities
By Industry Queensland
The company appointed managing contractor for Townsville’s $75 million common-user critical minerals processing facility has boosted its credentials in the sector with the acquisition of MinSol Engineering.
Sedgman announced the acquisition this week, saying it built on a strategy to become a full-service, global provider in the extraction and refining of minerals essential to clean energy technologies.
MinSol Engineering’s core business specialises in engineering of hard rock lithium concentration and refining processes including metallurgical test work, flow sheet development and detailed design.
Last month Sedgman, a member of the CIMIC Group, acquired engineering company Prudentia Engineering. That acquisition enhances Sedgman critical minerals and mineral processing expertise in copper, high-purity alumina, vanadium, lithium, cobalt, rare earths, uranium and nickel.
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And in 2023 it acquired Canadian engineering and metallurgy company Novopro – specialising in minerals processing for lithium projects, as well as in potash, salt, magnesium and soda ash.
“Sedgman now covers the complete process flowsheet in the critical minerals industries from comminution and beneficiation to hydrometallurgical refining through leaching, purification and metal recovery,” Sedgman managing director Grant Fraser said.
“With the combined expertise of Sedgman Novopro and Sedgman MinSol, we aim to service the rising demand for brine lithium in the Americas and Europe, and hard rock lithium in Western Australia and North America, to support the demand for minerals used to manufacture the everyday goods used widely across our society and in the energy transition.”
The state-owned common-user critical minerals processing facility planned for Townsville is intended to be operational for vanadium processing in 2025, with capacity to expand over time to handle other critical minerals like cobalt and rare earth elements.
And Critical Minerals Group last month awarded a contract to Sedgman to complete a definitive feasibility study for its Lindfield vanadium and high purity alumina (HPA) project in North-West Queensland.
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