Itafos Announces Commencement of Technical Studies Related to Itafos Conda Organic Growth Projects
ITAFOS ANNOUNCES COMMENCEMENT OF TECHNICAL STUDIES RELATED TO ITAFOS
CONDA ORGANIC GROWTH PROJECTS
TORONTO, ON – September 10, 2020 – Itafos (TSX-V: IFOS) (the “Company”) announced today
that it has commenced technical studies related to Itafos Conda organic growth projects, including
anhydrous hydrogen fluoride and precipitated silica (“ AHF/PS”) by-product recovery and on-site
ammonia production, as part of the Company’s strategic focus on optimizing Itafos Conda’s
EBITDA generation capability. The Company expects to provide a further update on the respective
technical studies by Q1 2021.
The AHF/PS by-product recovery initiative aims at improving Ita fos Conda’s EBITDA generation
capability by extracting and commercializing high-value by-products AHF and PS without impacting
Itafos Conda’s manufacturing process. The initiative contemplates the extraction of fluoride, in the
form of silico-fluoride, from the tailings pond water at Itafos Conda via continuous ion exchange
(“CIX”) and conversion to AHF and PS considering a patented process. To advance the
development of the initiative, the Company has engaged leading third parties to conduct pilot plant
testing and complete a front-end engineering design (“ FEED”) study, which are expected to be
completed over an 18-month timeframe. The next milestone in adv ancing the development of the
initiative is concentrating silico-fluoride via CIX at pilot scale, which is expected to be completed by
Q1 2021.
The on-site ammonia production initiative aims at improving Ita fos Conda’s EBITDA generation
capability by reducing the cost and stabilizing the supply of ammonia to Itafos Conda by producing
ammonia on-site to meet Itafos Conda’s fertilizer production requirements and commercializing any
excess production. The initiative contemplates the installation of a skid-mounted, small-scale
ammonia plant at Itafos Conda using natural gas as feedstock. T he initiative is expected to rely
upon mature Haber-Bosch technology, recently made viable at sma ll scale due to flexible steam-
methane reforming and skid-mounted ammonia synthesis, and to leverage the existing natural gas
pipeline infrastructure at Itafos Conda. To advance the development of the initiative, the Company
has engaged a leading third party to complete a feasibility study, which is expected to be completed
by Q1 2021.
About Itafos
The Company is a pure play phosphate and specialty fertilizer p latform with an attractive portfolio
of strategic businesses and proje cts located in key fertilizer markets, including North America,
South America and Africa.
The Company’s businesses and projects are as follows:
Itafos Conda – a vertically integrated phosphate mine and fert ilizer business with
production and sales capacity of approximately 550kt per year o f monoammonium
phosphate (“ MAP”), MAP with micronutrients (“ MAP+”), superphosphoric acid (“ SPA”),
merchant grade phosphoric acid (“MGA”) and ammonium polyphosphate (“APP”) located
in Idaho, US;
Itafos Arraias – a vertically integrated phosphate mine and fe rtilizer business with
production and sales capacity of approximately 500kt per year o f single superphosphate
(“SSP”), SSP with micronutrients (“ SSP+”) and approximately 40kt per year of excess
sulfuric acid located in Tocantins, Brazil;
Itafos Farim – a high-grade phosphate mine project located in Farim, Guinea-Bissau;
Itafos Paris Hills – a high-grade phosphate mine project locat ed in Idaho, US;
Itafos Santana – a vertically i ntegrated high-grade phosphate mine and fertilizer plant
project located in Pará, Brazil;
Itafos Mantaro – a phosphate m ine project located in Junin, Peru; and
Itafos Araxá – a vertically i ntegrated rare earth elements and niobium mine and extraction
plant project located in Minas Gerais, Brazil.
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