Fortescue has initiated its $50m (A$75.37m) Green Metal Project at the Christmas Creek site in Western Australia’s (WA) Pilbara region.
This plant is estimated to have an annual green metal production capacity of more 1,500t, with its first output expected next year.
It will utilise green hydrogen from the company’s gaseous and liquid hydrogen facility along with an electric smelting furnace to make “high-purity” green metal.
The company’s new green hydrogen plant can generate around 530kg of hydrogen gas each day, which totals approximately 195t annually.
New Zealand-based Fabrum collaborated on the design, build and commissioning of the liquid hydrogen plant, which it said is Australia’s largest at a mine site.
