SIRIUS MINERALS
86 towards the end of 2021 and an initial 10mn tonne per annum operation by 2024 . For the immediate future , Fraser notes that the company ’ s attention is entirely focused on completing the remaining financing required to build the project . “ Construction is well underway and we ’ re coming toward the end of our second year of our construction schedule ,” says Fraser . “ Now we look at stage two of our financing , which is our senior debt financing . That is concluding early next year and involves finalising our project procurement , signing and securing our delivery partners on the project . These include DMC , Strabag , Jacobs and our market partnerships with our customers , with whom we have already secured aggregate peak take or pay sales of 8.2mn tonnes per annum .”
As the project continues to advance , both Clarke and Fraser can look at how far the company has come since identifying the resource back in 2010 . More importantly for Clarke , the company can prove that it has and will continue to do things in future the right way . “ It ’ s who we are and it ’ s the way we do things . We will address whatever is coming in the future in the same way that we ’ ve addressed everything we ’ ve done so far . I think that ’ s one of the things that sets us aside , is our ability to change and evolve and meet the next challenge ,” he says .
NOVEMBER 2018