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SinterBall Bauxite

SinterBall Bauxite is a high strength bauxite proppant used around the world for high-stress, high-temperature, high flowrate hydraulic fracture treatments. SinterBall Bauxite is manufactured by Mineração Curimbaba, Ltda. in Poços de Caldas, Minas Gerais, Brazil. It was originally introduced in the industry in 1988. Curimbaba viewed this as a superb opportunity to diversify into the worldwide oil & gas industry as well as another way of utilizing the vast bauxite reserves controlled by The Curimbaba Group. The Curimbaba bauxite holdings represent the largest known deposit of high-grade bauxite in the world, not oriented for the production of metallurgical grade alumina. The high alumina content typically present in the Curimbaba bauxite is necessary for bauxite proppants in order to provide the strength, chemical resistance and thermal stability required for severe downhole environments and to ensure optimum production of hydrocarbon reserves at risk.

Through the years, like most engineered products, SinterBall Bauxite has undergone several developmental generations, each providing improved performance characteristics and manufacturing efficiencies. This has all culminated into today's SinterBall Bauxite - the consistent, quality product that is supplied around the world for the most critical and severe stimulation treatments.

SinterBall Bauxite is surpassed by none throughout the world as a bauxite proppant. Since 1988, SinterBall Bauxite has been used in thousands of fracs for major as well as independent operators in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia. In North America alone well over 500 million lbs. have been supplied.

Curimbaba has become the largest worldwide supplier of bauxite proppant. With the ore reserves available to Curimbaba in Brazil, the expansion potential is limitless. Therefore it is Curimbaba's intent to remain the global leader in bauxite proppant technology and manufacturing.