Pacific Fertiliser releases a new natural aerial gypsum product ex Brisbane.
The Mine26 product is a 2-6mm granular high purity gypsum is suitable for aerial spreading, consisting of over 96+% purity, 17.8+% sulphur and 23% calcium.
We can also do a 2-10mm aerial product which is slightly cheaper and a recycled gypsum option at 6-12mm.
Ravensdown will exit the Australian fertiliser market and cease its Queensland operations.
The move comes five months after the completion of the sale of Ravensdown’s operations in Western Australia and South Australia and within a financial year that has seen the farmer-owned co-operative meeting its turnaround expectations in New Zealand.
Ravensdown Fertiliser Australia was set up in 2009 after cane growers invited the co-operative to start supplying soil nutrients. The original business plan based its viability on a 100,000 tonnes a year target. But cyclones, flooding and depressed world prices for sugar meant fertiliser tonnages reached only 70,000 tonnes last year.
Ravensdown are concetrating on the Zealand market, by investing in advanced nutrient management training, new infrastructure such as new loaders in stores and in technology such as Smart Maps which provides a visual audit trail for a farm’s nutrient status. Ravensdown are seeing strong demand from a buoyant New Zealand sector and have good availability of products like superphosphate, DAP and urea in our stores,” concluded Greg Campbell.
Ravensdown was created after farmers were getting frustrated by rising input costs and falling fertiliser quality. This was compounded in 1977 when the two large private companies supplying superphosphate into New Zealand creating a monolpoly. Kempthorne Prosser announced it was going to be buying its rival, Dunedin-based Dominion fertilisers,
The then presidents of the South Canterbury, Otago and North Otago Federated Farmers went to farmers in the area to ask them to become founding members of a new co-operative. Ravensdown eventually mounted a takeover bid for KP which was completed on 16 August 1978.
Pacific Fertiliser supplies numerous gypsum products into the QLD market.
The gypsum products include:
– QLD Mined gypsum
– QLD Screened mined gypsum
– QLD Milled gypsum
– QLD superflocc gypsum
– QLD Prilled gypsum & QLD Granulated gypsum
– QLD gypsum blends (with products like phosphate, lime, elemental sulphur etc)
– QLD Recycled gypsum
Pacific Fertiliser supplies gypsum to the QLD market for agricultural, mining and civil engineering applications. The gypsum products are available in bulk and bag.
PacFert can offer mined gypsum loading from bogie loads to road train trailers and B-doubles from Pinkenba and Port of Brisbane in QLD.
Other special products and blends come out of the Ipswich site.
We can package the natural high quality grade 1 gypsum with competitive bulk transport and spreading services.
Our gypsum is 95+% pure, ensuring you aren’t buying, transporting and spreading a large percentage of dirt or other impurities.
If a CSG water provider does not wish to, or cannot comply with the requirements of a general beneficial use approval, it may apply under Chapter 8 of the WRR Act for a specific beneficial use approval. Beneficial use of CSG water for the augmentation of public water supply storages or potable water supplies will require a specific beneficial use approval.
Beneficial uses of CSG water covered by the general DEHP approval for the beneficial use of CSG water include:
• aquaculture and human consumption of aquatic foods
• coal washing
• dust suppression
• industrial use
• irrigation
• livestock watering
CSG water varies widely in its water quality characteristics and beneficial use of the resource is unlikely without
some form of treatment (an active process) or amendment (simple chemical addition, for example the addition
of sulphuric acid or gypsum).
Pacific Fertiliser is offering a special deal of 6mm screened mined gypsum for the special price of $ per tonne.
We have 3000 tonne stockpiled onsite in Brisbane and offer a 2014 Autumn special until this stockpile is sold.
The sub 6mm natural gypsum has a purity of 96%, a mean particle size of 0.5mm and is suitable for horticulture, golf courses, turf and sporting fields.
Please contact us for more information on this deal.
Pacific Fertiliser’s aerial grade gypsum GranGyp24 is a granular 2-4mm product.
The product provides minimal dust and very flowable properties, suitable for aerial applications.
The gypsum used is of high quality providing good levels of sulphur and calcium.
We can also do granule sizes of 1-2mm and 4-12mm.
Note all the granulated gypsum products are not washed crystal gypsum so the solubility is good.
PacFert can also provide aerial grade lime, phosphate, dolomite, carbon or blends for a one pass application.
Pacific Fertiliser supplies high quality screened mined gypsum from Hobart in Tasmanian.
Other products include ag lime, phosphate rock, compost and dolomite.
Pacific Fertiliser supplies high quality gypsum & lime into the majority of the major QLD mining projects due to the superior quality of its products and reliability of delivery. Some application include stabilisation, rehabiliation, flocculation and water treatment.
Coal Projects
Wandoan Juandah Metrocoal $10M
Chinchilla Glen Wilga Coal Mine Tarong Energy $500M
Kogan Kogan Creek Mine CS Energy $1.2B
Wandoan Norwood Creek Project Metrocoal
Wandoan Wandoan Coal Project Xstrata Coal $6.8B
Macalister Wilkie Creek Expansion Project Peabody Energy $162M
Wandoan Woori Creek Project Surat Coal Pty Ltd / Cockatoo Coal
Miles Columboola Joint Venture Project Metrocoal / Sinocoal Resources $4M
Wandoan Bundi Coal Mine Metrocoal
Cameby Cameby Downs Mine Yancoal $190M
Cameby Cameby Downs Expansion Project Yancoal
Wandoan Elimatta Project Taroom Coal Pty Ltd / North Energy Corporation (NEC) $600M
Wandoan The Range Stanmore Coal $500m
CSG Projects
Chinchilla Queensland Curtis LNG Pipeline QGC / BG Group $15B
Chinchilla – Arrow Surat Pipeline $550M
Chinchilla Ironbark Project Origin $1.5B
Wandoan – Dalby Surat Basin Gas Project Arrow Energy $1.5B +
Yuleba North – Reedy Creek, Combabula & Eurombah Creek
Condabri Central – Condabri & Orana
CSG Pipeline Projects
Chinchilla Kenya – Goodiwindi Pipeline Project ERM Power
Chinchilla Queensland Curtis LNG Pipeline QGC / BG Group $15B
Kogan / Chinchilla Surat Pipeline Project Arrow Energy $550M
Wallumbilla – Chinchilla Australia Pacific LNG Origin $500M
LNG Projects
Chinchilla Chinchilla LNG Plant QGC / BOC
Power Station Projects
Wandoan Wandoan Power Project GE Energy / Xstrata
Kogan Western Downs to Halys Transmission Project Powerlink
Kogan Braemar 1 ERM Power $545M
Kogan Braemar 2 ERM Power / Arrow Energy $546M
Kogan Braemar 3 ERM Power $550M
Cameby Columboola – Westerns Downs Powerlink
Condamine Condamine Power Station QGC $200M
Dalby Darling Downs Power Station Origin $1.3B
Dalby Daandine Power Station Arrow Energy
Solar Projects
Wandoan Methane Joint Venture Project Cougar Energy $110M
Kogan Bloodwood Creek Carbon Energy $36M
Condamine Andrew Project and Lauren Project Liberty Resources
Chinchilla UCG – GTL Project Linc Energy $1.2B
Rail Projects
Wandoan Southern Missing Link Surat Basin Rail Pty Ltd $1B
Treating Salinity and Sodic soil with Gypsum
Most of the croplands in Australia are currently affected to some degree by saline or sodic soils. As salinity increases, crop yields and resistance to disease decreases.
A sodic soil has an exchangeable sodium percentage (ESP) of more than 6. This means that sodium comprises more than 6% of the total exchangeable cations in the soil. Sodic soils are likely to disperse, that is, break down into individual clay particles that block pore spaces. This dispersion causes poor water infiltration, slow internal drainage, surface crusting and germination problems. If dispersion occurs in the subsoil, the soil may become almost impermeable and be a poor environment for growing plants (except rice).
The use of saline water may reduce the level of dispersion in the short term due to flocculation of the clay particles. If the rate of leaching is inadequate, the sodium accumulates in the soil, making it more sodic and more difficult to manage. Unlike salinity, sodicity in soils is virtually permanent, in nature: the only way to reverse it is to apply gypsum. Reduced tillage and a build-up of organic matter can reduce the degree of dispersion in a sodic oil, but will not alter the soil’s ESP.
