For anyone interested the October Update addresses technical questions on Speewah's mineralogy & mettalurgy.
"peer comparison chart that highlights Speewah as having a relatively low resource grade & a very high concentrate grade for vanadium"
"high concentrate grade, low strip ratio, close proximity to port & very large size" (deposit)
"Each Vanadium in Titanomagnetite resource has a maximum achievable vanadium grade in it's concentrate. When grinding finer, there is typically a trade off between overall vanadium recovery & vanadium grade in concentrate."
"The baseline grind sizes being evaluated by Tivan's project team are relatively common in industrial metallurgical operations & can be achieved with conventional well established technologies. The path from bench scale metallurgy to industrial implementation is also well defined. These areas are within scope of the engineering review currently being conducted by Hatch"
"Concentrate grade is an important metric as it translates on a linear basis into higher vanadium output & therefore higher revenue from downstream processes."
Another important point - "As no chemical changes are made to the ore in the beneficiation process, the concentration of vanadium in the Fr-Ti(V) minerals does not change, making it an inherent property of the orebody."
