Homerun Resources announced that it has engaged Minerali Industriali to develop process flow design and a capital cost estimate for a primary silica sand processing plant with a minimum capacity of 350,000 tonnes per year, targeting +99.9 percent SiO2 (3N) industrial grade silica sand at its Santa Maria Eterna (SME) silica deposit in Belmonte, Bahia, Brazil.
This milestone marks the formal launch of Phase 1 of Homerun’s Three-Phase Integrated Purification Platform; a modular, bolt-on architecture that will transform the Company’s high-purity silica resource into a fully vertically integrated advanced materials business.
Highlights
- MIE engaged to deliver process flow design, engineering, and CAPEX estimate for a 350,000 tonnes per year primary physical purification plant producing +99.9 percent SiO2 (3N) industrial grade silica sand.
- Approximately 200,000 tonnes per year of 3N sand will be delivered to Homerun’s own antimony-free, low-iron extra-clear solar glass manufacturing facility, for which a Bankable Feasibility Study (BFS) was completed by DTEC PMP on May 7, 2026.
- The remaining tonnage will be marketed to industrial silica customers and used as clean feedstock for the future Phase 2 (4N) and Phase 3 (5N) purification modules, designed as modular bolt-ons to this Phase 1 foundation.
- Owning its primary processing plant is expected to deliver a significant reduction in cost of goods sold and reduce reliance on third-party processing.
- The BFS completed for the solar glass facility has established a substantial portion of the site engineering, utility and infrastructure groundwork, accelerating the engineering timeline for the primary purification plant.
- Finance parties have been engaged and are actively meeting with the Company throughout this development process, with a high level of interest expressed.
Homerun has spent the past two years systematically building the technical and commercial foundation for a fully integrated, multi-product silica purification platform, one of the few such platforms being developed outside of China. The Company has established that its SME deposit is capable of producing silica products across a broad range of high-value market applications.
Minerali Industriali has been engaged to provide a complete preliminary engineering package and capital cost estimate for the primary processing plant. The scope includes:
- Process flow design for a complete physical purification circuit (washing, grading, sieving, attrition scrubbing, classification and drying)
- Plant layout and civil scope, including a 9 hectare facility footprint with primary storage in a purpose-built 52 metre diameter dome
- Storage and dispatch systems for treated product
- Procurement and supply input for major equipment
- Capital cost estimate (CAPEX)