Technology Metals test work improves purity of vanadium further

Date: Dec 13, 2018

The definitive feasibility study is on track for delivery in the June quarter of 2019.

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The met work results are an improvement on the previous high-purity results

Technology Metals Australia Ltd (ASX:TMT) has received results from more metallurgical test work on samples from the Gabanintha Vanadium Project in Western Australia.

Refinement work on a sub-sample delivered a vanadium pentoxide (V2O5) product with a purity in excess of 99.7%.

The V2O5 product came from an ammonium metavanadate precipitate that recovered over 98% of vanadium from a leach solution. 

This high purity further confirms the suitability of Gabanintha vanadium product for the speciality chemical, battery and aeronautical industries.

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Preliminary base metal recovery test work delivered highly encouraging flotation concentrates with a combined base metal content of 10% to 15%, containing up to 2.31% cobalt, 4.47% nickel and 9.50% copper.

This test work focused on the non-magnetic (tailings) fraction from the magnetic separation process.

Notably, significant scope exists to optimise the base metal recovery into a concentrate product.

TMT’s managing director Ian Prentice said: “Improvement on the already high purity V2O5 product following a simple refinement step underscores the very high quality of the World class Gabanintha deposit; whilst the ability to produce a high grade base metal concentrate from a the non-magnetic tailings stream has potential to be a significant bonus for the project.”

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