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CIF eq. Cost (US$/t)
10
20
30
30
Shandong Solar
40
50
60
Salt Cost Curve - Contestable Market
BCI
MINERALS
LIMITED
Mardie will be a low-cost supplier of salt into contestable¹ Asian market
Mardie
with SOP
Credit
Tianjin Solar
Chinese Rock 1st Tier
Australia 1-2
0
20
40
Mardie
Salt Only
Australia 3-4
India Ist Tier
Australia 5
India 2nd Tier
MARGINAL COST
Chinese Rock 2nd Tier
60
Cumulative Capacity (Mt)
Mexican
India 3rd Tier
Chile
80
100
120
Chinese Rock 3rd Tier
Other
■ Mexican solar salt and
Chinese rock salt the
marginal cost suppliers
to most Asian markets
(~US$35/t)
■ Mardie will be cost
competitive with all
Australian salt
operations²
■ When SOP margin
treated as a by-product
credit, Mardie becomes
one of the lowest cost
salt producers
¹Cost curve limited to contestable market where the Mardie project is expected to compete on delivered cost and quality, including coastal China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and South
East Asia ²Roskill (December 2020), BCI analysis
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