All good questions and comments, but you might want to calm down...

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Originally posted by Blythefan ↑

Well, they will have a fair bit of work cut out for them just to make a scoping study that's worth more than a bag of clay.

The flow sheet is about as cartoonish as it gets - vanadium purification, in one handy little box. That's usually a $350M cost item right there for a conventional vanadium mine, let alone what appears to be a acid leach with a SX-EW.

Solvent extraction for vanadium appears to be akin to herding cats. I mean, what's the vanadium ion in solution? Vanadium bisulfate? V(S04)2? Or is it a V5+ ion, or what? And what is the organic compound used to strip the pregnant leach liquor of vanadium, and who provides this mystery chemical, for how much?

To what specification is this magic purification box producing the vanadium product, and what product? Vanadium pentoxide, or a sulphate product? 99.5% V2O5, or a 98% V2O5? And the deleterious elements like the alkali metals, what's the product specifications for that?

I, for one, will be interested to see what the process flowsheet looks like, and what the equipment list of as yet never before made items looks like, once the scoping study is out. Then it's just a couple of dozen million dollars of money spent tinkering with what is looking suspeciously like an atmospheric leach circuit stolen off a nickel laterite processing route, complete with mystical amounts of hypothetical Ni-Cu-Co (as sulphates, no doubt).

Plus, I wonder where they got their market data claiming India as well as China was mandating more vanadium in rebar?

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All good questions and comments, but you might want to calm down a little...it was just an investor presentation and I'm pretty sure talking about the technIcal issues you raise sends wealthy businessmen to sleep. If you could show me a scoping study or flow sheet from any V explorer around at the moment that had more detail I'd be interested...they're all currently comparing floppies and hoping to attract more funding to fill in the gaps and get proper hard. In that respect VMC has as much chance as any of them. Plus there's a gold mine/deposit to generate cash flow.

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