Gypsum industry news

Canada: Red Moon Resources says it has restarted production for the season at its Ace mine in western Newfoundland. Overall production at the site in 2020 is expected to be less than in 2019 due to disruption to both operations and markets caused by coronavirus. The situation is expected to stabalise in 2021. The company mined 0.16Mt of gypsum and anhydrite from the site in 2019.

Canada: Red Moon Resources says it has shipped over 0.13Mt of gypsum and anhydrite from its Ace mine in western Newfoundland since May 2019. Production is scheduled to continue into late October 2019 and the company is expecting for total production to exceed 0.15Mt in 2019. The company is working with Vinland Materials, a related company, to undertake contract mining operations and secure sales agreements for gypsum and anhydrite.

“We have successfully opened up the Ace mine and will continue to work towards a larger operation,” said Patrick J Laracy, President of Red Moon.
. “We have engaged some of the best operational resources in the area to make the mine a success and ensure its viability. The economic impact in the immediate area is significant with an estimated 45 people employed on a seasonal basis in mining, trucking, port facility, marketing, shipping and supervision. This is in addition to the utilisation of specific services such as drilling and blasting.”

Red Moon uses a deep-water port approximately 10km from the mine to ship the gypsum. The quarry site covers 12 hectares and has the potential for a 10 year mining life at an average production rate of 350,000t/yr. The company says that if it can access markets requiring production rates beyond the Ace mine capacity, the company is prepared to develop other existing gypsum deposits located on its mineral licences, which cover approximately 700 hectares of the historic Flat Bay gypsum mines.

Canada: Red Moon Resources has loaded its first shipment from its Ace gypsum mine in western Newfoundland. The company is working with Vinland Materials, a related company, to undertake contract mining operations and secure sales agreements for gypsum and anhydrite. A deep-water port connected by a haulage road is located approximately 9km from the mine. The site covers approximately 11.79 hectares and has the potential for a 10 year mining life at an average production rate of 350,000t/yr.

Canada: Red Moon Resources Inc. has said that it will commence development of the Ace gypsum mine in western Newfoundland after it received government approval for its plan for an open pit operation.

Operational work, consisting of scrubbing vegetation and overburden removal, has begun at the site. The Canada-listed explorer is working with Vinland Materials Inc. to undertake contract mining operations and secure sales agreements for gypsum and anhydrite. In addition, it is working towards initiating shipments in 2018, with sales contracts to be sourced by 2019.

Red Moon estimated potential resources of 3-5Mt within the mining lease, which was obtained in October 2017.

Canada: Red Moon Resources has submitted a development plan for an open cast gypsum mine at the Ace deposit in western Newfoundland to the government of Newfoundland and Labrador. The project has already received environmental clearance. It is currently attempting to find customers for gypsum and anhydrite from mine. Previously the site was used by the Flat Bay mine, which produced at least 15Mt of gypsum prior to 1990.

Red Moon Resources is an industrial minerals company developing the Ace Gypsum deposit, the Black Bay Nepheline deposit and the Captain Cook Salt deposit in Newfoundland and Labrador. Its majority shareholder is Vulcan Minerals.