Itafos Files Updated Feasibility Study for the Farim Phosphate Project

HOUSTON, June 28, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Itafos Inc. (TSX-V: IFOS) (“Itafos” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that, further to its news release on May 17, 2023, it has filed the National Instrument 43-101 – Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects (“NI 43-101”) technical report for the Farim Phosphate Project (the “Farim Project”), a high-grade phosphate mine project located in the northern part of central Guinea-Bissau, West Africa.

The technical report, entitled “Farim Phosphate Project – NI 43-101 Technical Report and Feasibility Study,” with an effective date of May 17, 2023 (the “Farim Technical Report”), was prepared for the Company by Ausenco Engineering Canada Inc. (“Ausenco”) in accordance with NI 43-101. The Farim Technical Report was prepared to summarize the results of an updated Feasibility Study for the Farim Project and consolidate all project de-risk work conducted between 2015 and 2022. Ausenco was supported by KEMWorks Technology, Inc., WSP/Golder, Knight Piésold Ltd., WF Baird & Associates and Kristal Font Inc.

The Report is available on SEDAR (www.sedar.com) under the Company’s issuer profile and on the Company’s website (www.itafos.com).

About Itafos

The Company is a phosphate and specialty fertilizer company. The Company’s businesses and projects are as follows:

• Conda – a vertically integrated phosphate fertilizer business located in Idaho, US with production capacity as follows:
  • approximately 550kt per year of monoammonium phosphate (“MAP”), MAP with micronutrients (“MAP+”), superphosphoric acid (“SPA”), merchant grade phosphoric acid (“MGA”) and ammonium polyphosphate (“APP”); and
  • approximately 27kt per year of hydrofluorosilicic acid (“HFSA”);
• Arraias – a vertically integrated phosphate fertilizer business located in Tocantins, Brazil with production capacity as follows:
  • approximately 500kt per year of single superphosphate (“SSP”) and SSP with micronutrients (“SSP+”); and
  • approximately 40kt per year of excess sulfuric acid (220kt per year gross sulfuric acid production capacity);
• Farim – a high-grade phosphate mine project located in Farim, Guinea-Bissau;
• Santana – a vertically integrated high-grade phosphate mine and fertilizer plant project located in Pará, Brazil; and
• Araxá – a vertically integrated rare earth elements and niobium mine and extraction plant project located in Minas Gerais, Brazil.