“With the bulk samples, the company plans to promptly execute a multifaceted testing program on its Lac Dore deposit,” the mining firm said
VanadiumCorp Resource Inc revealed that metallurgical bulk sampling had begun at its flagship Lac Dore deposit in Quebec to excavate vanadiferous titanomagnetite from historic trenches.
“With the bulk samples, the company plans to promptly execute a multifaceted testing program on its Lac Dore deposit,” the mining firm said in a statement.
“Large grinding and novel mineral separation tests will be performed in Q4 2022 and Q1 2023.
“An estimated 5 tonnes or more of high-quality concentrates from the bulk samples will feed new hydrometallurgical tests in January 2023.”
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VanadiumCorp also owns 100% of a newly patented hydrometallurgical process called VEPT, which was invented by Dr Francois Cardarelli, that consists of digesting feedstocks into concentrated sulfuric acid to recover vanadium, titanium, ferrous sulphate, and silica products from mineral concentrate feedstocks such as titanomagnetite.
The VEPT process can also recover vanadium from industrial residues, such as fly ash from power plants and slags from oxygen blast furnaces.
VandiumCorp noted that the bulk sampling also aimed to “improve the yields and quality of the outputs from its VEPT process and investigate cost-saving measures, such as recycling process acids”.
“Gilles Dupuis, P. Eng. and Gilles Champagne, Ph.D., our CTO, will collaborate in several Quebec-based programs to improve our metallurgical extraction technologies and pilot the manufacture of high-purity vanadium electrolytes from our concentrates,” the company said.
As well as owning the VEPT process, the company wholly owns two strategic vanadium, titanium, and iron properties in Quebec – Iron T and the flagship Lac Dore.
The Lac Dore deposit hosts measured and indicated resources of 215 million tonnes containing 53 million tonnes of recoverable vanadiferous titanomagnetite. The titanomagnetite concentrate is estimated to have 1.49 billion pounds of vanadium pentoxide (V2O5).
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