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Originally posted by love_islander
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Looks like Vanadium is a solvent extraction (SX) process. A lot of infrastructure is required for these sorts of plants. I'd expect that we'd be looking at something like $50 - 75M minimum to have a matching SX plant. Effectively the Vanadium would have to stack up on its own as the money to mine/crush/grind would normally constitute about 30% of the CAPEX in a plant this size, and about 50% of the OPEX I would estimate. In this case the cost to produce is at least reasonably discounted by the mining/grinding costs being more than covered by the graphite sales.
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If extraction of the V requires an SX/EW process I'd be surprised if they could get it over the line due to substantial need for electrical power. So best not expect any immediate plans if that's the process required
