Bushveld Has Two Viable Processing Options at Vanadium Project

Mining Weekly reported that pyrometallurgical testing at Bushveld Minerals Ltd.’s (LSE:BMN) Limpopo-based vanadium project has “confirmed the viability of using a salt roast process to produce vanadium pentoxide flakes or ferrovanadium from the project’s main magnetite layer.”

Vanadium extraction using a sodium sulfate salt roast is also viable.

CEO Fortune Mojapelo commented:

Having reported the results of the modelling exercise undertaken on the smelting processing route last week, we are pleased that results from the salt roast route, including lab-scale vanadium extraction, prove that we have two viable processing options to consider.

Both of these processes are proven and in operation using ore similar to that within the MML, which is obviously encouraging. We look forward to building on these results in our scoping study which is under way and expected out in the coming months

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