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    Loadquip and Camco’s Mardie salt harvester: design notes for mining engineers

    July 9, 2026|

    Reviewed by Joe Ashwell

    First reported on International Mining – News

    30 Second Briefing

    BCI Minerals has commissioned a 1,500 t/h salt harvester for the Mardie salt and potash project in Western Australia, built through a collaboration led by Loadquip and Camco. The machine is engineered for continuous harvesting across large crystalliser ponds, integrating high-capacity materials handling with corrosion-resistant components tailored to marine salt conditions. For mining engineers, the project signals growing scope for locally engineered, heavy-duty mobile plant customised to hypersaline, abrasive environments rather than relying solely on imported, generic bulk materials equipment.

    Technical Brief

    • Project structure shows a viable model for regionally engineered mobile plant in niche bulk materials sectors.

    Our Take

    In our database, this Mardie salt operation work is one of only a small subset of salt- and potash-tagged mining pieces, signalling that BCI Minerals is pushing into a niche where fewer greenfield bulk-commodity projects are currently being profiled compared with battery metals.

    The earlier item on Loadquip’s 1,500 t/h harvester factory tests for BCI Minerals suggests this build is part of a larger, standardised harvesting system rather than a one-off machine, which typically lowers lifecycle maintenance and spares risk for remote coastal operations.

    With sodium-ion battery developers such as CATL and BYD drawing on salt-derived sodium, higher-capacity, mechanised salt harvesting at Mardie positions BCI Minerals to respond if chemical-grade salt demand tightens alongside grid-scale storage deployment.

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    Prepared by collating external sources, AI-assisted tools, and Geomechanics.io’s proprietary mining database, then reviewed for technical accuracy & edited by our geotechnical team.

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