中国华垦国际与英国天狼星矿业签约（中英双语）

青岛希尼尔翻译公司（www.sinosenior.com.cn）整理发布2015-12-27

希尼尔翻译公司（www.sinosenior.com.cn）2015年12月27日了解到：Sirius Minerals has secured a supply deal with a Chinese fertiliser importer, underpinning the UK mining explorer’s plan to open a potash mine underneath a national park in Yorkshire. 天狼星矿业(Sirius Minerals)与中国一家肥料进口商达成供应协议，为这家英国矿产勘探企业开采约克郡一个国家公园地下钾肥矿的计划提供了支撑。

On Thursday, Sirius announced a seven year “take or pay” deal with Huaken International that will run for seven years and involve the miner supplying up to 500,000 tonnes of polyhalite annually in the final year of that term. 周四，天狼星宣布与华垦国际(Huaken International)达成为期7年的“照付不议”协议，矿商将在合同期的最后一年供应至多50万吨杂卤石。

News of the deal caps a year in which Sirius won a lengthy battle to secure planning permission to build its York Potash project near Whitby, under the North York Moors. 这份协议的消息为天狼星充满波折的一年画上句号，其间该公司赢得了争取规划许可的漫长斗争，获准在惠特比(Whitby)附近北约克沼泽国家公园(North York Moors)推进其“约克钾肥”项目。

Whether the project goes ahead now hinges on financing for the mine, which Sirius is looking to develop amid a deep mining downturn as the prices of commodities have tumbled. A detailed feasibility study with proposed construction costs is due to be announced by Sirius in January. 但是，该项目最终是否上马仍取决于项目融资，毕竟，天狼星正试图在大宗商品价格暴跌、矿业深陷低迷的背景下开发该矿。天狼星将在1月宣布一项详尽的可行性研究，其中包括估算的建设成本。

Sirius’ deal with Huaken is the latest in a string of supply deals that the Aim-quoted developer has announced as it has tried to build the investor case for the mine. 天狼星与华垦达成的交易，是这家在伦敦证交所另类投资市场(AIM)上市的开发商迄今宣布的一系列供应协议之一，该公司试图为这个钾肥矿打造投资者基础。

Demonstrating demand for its product is particularly important because polyhalite, the type of mineral to be produced in Yorkshire, has previously been little used globally compared with a known range of other potash products. 展示对产品的需求尤其重要，因为相比其他一些已知的钾肥产品，杂卤石（约克郡将要开采的矿物）此前在全球很少使用。

Sirius abandoned early plans to process the polyhalite into other forms and its business plan entails shipping it direct to customers — which it claims will bring “disruptive innovation” to the fertiliser market. 天狼星放弃了把杂卤石加工成其它形态的早期计划，其业务计划包括把杂卤石直接发运给客户，声称这种做法将给肥料市场带来“破坏性创新”。

In announcing the deal with Huaken, Sirius said polyhalite would be used as a soil conditioner in China. “It can assist in helping countries like China restore agricultural productivity and maintain food security for future generations,” explained Chris Fraser, chief executive of Sirius. 在宣布与华垦达成的这笔交易时，天狼星表示，杂卤石将在中国被用作土壤改良剂。“它将有助于中国这样的国家恢复农业生产率，为子孙后代保障粮食安全，”天狼星首席执行官克里斯·弗雷泽(Chris Fraser)表示。

Analysts at Liberum, one of Sirius’ corporate brokers, said the would-be miner had now signed binding offtake agreements for 3.6mt annually of its product, which is in line with the company’s target ahead of securing finance. Its largest offtake deal is for 1.5mt annually with an unnamed US agribusiness. 天狼星公司的经纪人之一Liberum的分析师表示，这家潜在矿商迄今签署的有约束力采购协议的年度总量已达到360万吨，与该公司的融资前目标相符。其最大的采购协议来自美国一家农业综合企业（名称不详），规模达每年150万吨。

In the project’s proposed first phase, Sirius will aim to build a mine capable of supplying 10mt of polyhalite annually, which it says would give it about 3 per cent of the global potash market in 2020.

“As with Sirius’s other offtake agreements, pricing is based on a formula linked to polyhalite’s constituent nutrients. This is another major step forward for Sirius, further de-risking the project from a marketing perspective,” Liberum said. 在该项目拟议中的第一阶段，天狼星的目标是建设一个年产1000万吨杂卤石的钾肥矿，该公司称，这将使其在2020年占据全球钾肥市场的大约3%。

Sirius’s project involves sinking 1,500 metre shafts into the mineral seam to be mined, then sending the product 36km through a tunnel 250 metres below the moors to a port at Teesside for export. It would be among the largest mining projects ever built in the UK, comparable to the development of the now defunct Selby coalfields in Yorkshire in the 1980s. “就像天狼星达成的其他采购协议一样，价格将基于一个与杂卤石的具体养分挂钩的公式。这是天狼星向前迈出的又一大步，从营销视角看进一步降低了该项目的风险，”Liberum表示。

天狼星的项目涉及开挖1500米深的矿井达到矿层，开采出的矿物将通过一条长36公里、位于北约克沼泽地下250米的隧道，被输送至Teesside的一个港口装船出口。它将是英国史上最大采矿项目之一，堪比上世纪80年代开发、现已关闭的约克郡塞尔比煤田。