About Us
Premium garnet, superior results.
Delivering safer abrasives for your contractors, ensuring care for both distributors and their customers.
Our company is known for its quality and innovation in the garnet industry. Located at Lucky Bay, our fully integrated operations are designed to deliver the highest-grade garnet, ensuring superior performance in every application. Unlike others who mix materials from multiple sources, we maintain a single-source approach, offering pure, unblended Australian garnet sand that consistently meets and exceeds industry standards. Backed by Mineral Resources, our operations combine cutting-edge technology with sustainable practices, from mine to bag in just 12 hours, setting a new standard in the market for environmentally safe blasting media.
Our state-of-the-art processing plant is equipped with the latest technology, ensuring that our garnet is not only of the highest purity but also low in turbidity and dust. Our advanced packaging solutions, featuring colour-coded straps and heavy-duty bulk bags, ensure that our garnet arrives in perfect condition, ready to deliver optimal results in garnet blasting and waterjet cutting applications. With a focus on continuous improvement, we are constantly innovating to enhance the performance of our products, making them the best choice for silica-free abrasive blasting and precision waterjet cutting.
Lucky Bay Garnet Mine and Operations
- Total Mineral Resource tonnage of 523Mt (90% classified as Measured or Indicated)
- Total Mineral Resource of Heavy Minerals of 21.7Mt
- Total Mineral Resource of Garnet of 17.9Mt
- Mineral Resource mine life of 28 years
Alluvial garnet is a naturally occurring mineral which is mined and processed under international standards and contains no hazardous compounds.
Alluvial garnet mineral sand is low in dust, pink in colour and maintains a sub angular shape that’s ideal abrasive for blasting and waterjet cutting.
Australian Garnet uses no hazardous chemicals in mining and processing our garnet abrasive products.
Australian Garnet
Values
At Australian Garnet we strive to develop a culture that creates an inclusive and inspiring workplace, supported and enabled by our leaders, that encourages high performance.
Together we Succeed
We achieve more when we collaborate and all work together.
Agility
We challenge the status quo, and we act fast.
Accountable
We strive for excellence and take ownership of our actions.
Integrity
We build trust through responsible actions.
Australian Garnet
Commitment
Our commitment to excellence drives everything we do. We focus on delivering unparalleled quality, reliability and sustainability in every aspect of our operations, from our eco-friendly grit blasting media to our high-performance garnet for surface preparation.
Security of Supply
With a 28+ year mine life and world-class operations, we deliver our products globally, right when you need them. Our advanced mining technology allows us to go from mine to bag in just 12 hours, ensuring secure, timely and cost-effective transportation.
Quality Assurance
Our 100% single-sourced Australian beach alluvial garnet is unblended for consistent strength and performance. We rigorously test our products at every stage of production to meet the highest industry, safety and quality standards.
Sustainability
Our innovative mining method reduces fleet and truck use, cutting diesel consumption. We own and operate a wind farm at Lucky Bay, which helps us significantly reduce our carbon footprint. Most importantly, we rehabilitate mined areas to their original state.
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Quality control
Our 100% single-sourced Australian beach alluvial garnet is unblended for consistent strength and performance. We rigorously test our products at every stage of production to meet the highest industry, safety and quality standards, independently verified by leading authorities.
Australian Garnet is certified to:
US Military Specification (MIL-PRF-22262C)
Our 20/40, 30/60 and 80 Mesh products are qualified under Type I, Class 2 Grade A and Grade B requirements and listed on the Qualified Products List QPL-22262.
SSPC-AB1 with Appendix B Approval
We’re the only garnet abrasive on the SSPC-AB1 Qualified Products List to achieve Appendix B certification, meeting additional environmental and health criteria for safer, cleaner operations.
ISO Triple Certification
ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 certified for quality management, environmental responsibility and occupational health and safety.
When your customers need abrasives that meet stringent defence, infrastructure and industrial standards, Australian Garnet delivers certified performance you can trust.
Production and
Quality process
Australian Garnet stands out with state-of-the-art mining, processing, testing and packaging operations to deliver high-quality garnet.
Low Soluble Salts and Dust
Achieved through calcite removal using slurry-pumped ore and two high-energy attrition scrubbers.
Low Chlorides
Processed with low salinity water from deep aquifer bores and a large Reverse Osmosis plant with a counter-current washing circuit
High Garnet Purity
Ensured with gravity-fed spirals, rare earth magnets and world-class screening to eliminate trash minerals, oversize and fines.
Exceptional Quality
Maintained through an onsite laboratory and frequent sample testing to meet stringent quality thresholds and international standards.
Particle Size Distribution
Custom screens ensure our products deliver optimum performance.
Improved handling and Storage
Colour-coded straps for easy identification and heavy-duty four-panel bulk bags for superior stacking and packaging integrity.
Australian Garnet
In Numbers
CESCO
USA and Canada
Prime Tech
USA and Canada
Abrasivos y Recubrimientos Industriales
Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia
Meldgaard
Europe
- Distribution Area
- Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Spain, UK, Poland, Check Republic
Euroblast Middle East LLC
United Arab Emirates
Koyenco Trading W.L.L
Qatar and Oman
Euroblast Saudi Ltd. Co.
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
M/s Arabian Abrasive Trading Co
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Asia Airblast Pte Ltd
Asia and South-East Asia
