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SPECIAL PROJECT FOCUS | SENEGAL AFRICAN PHOSPHATES FOR FERTILIZERS Minemakers’ business case emerges in Senegal ▼ The annual global fertilizer market is forecast to be worth US$172 billion this year, an increase of more than 32% since 2010. This increasingly lucrative market is the foundation upon which ASX/ TSX-listed phosphate explorer and developer Minemakers is building its business. And its intention to start producing quickly has seen it acquire a large-scale rock phosphate tenement in Senegal, which is on track to become operational in the latter half of 2016, writes LAURA CORNISH. IN SHORT The new Baobab phosphate operation is just a year away from production and will elevate Senegal’s intention to encourage new mine developments in the sector moving forward. Minemakers has revealed a 68 Mt maidden inferred mineral resource for Baobab, grading 22% P2O5 (phosphorous pentoxide) with an 18% cut-off for the Gadde Bissik prospect “T he phosphate industry is a key component of the world’s nutrient market, which is interesting from an economic point of view but more importantly, because it will contribute towards providing long-term feeding solutions for people across the world,” Minemakers CEO Cliff Lawrenson starts. “This is the foundation upon which our company has been built and will be further developed over time.” And while the company has been exploring and continues to explore and evaluate a significant rock phosphate project in central Australia, the company has set its sights on securing a project which can be brought into production quickly. “Towards the end of 2014 we found that project, in Senegal,” Lawrenson states. The Baobab exploration lease area, also showing other phosphate operations in the region 12 MINING REVIEW AFRICA | SEPTEMBER 2015