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Vanadium News
Prophecy submit permits for Nevada vanadium project
By: Creamer Media Reporter 8th November 2019 TSX-listed Prophecy Development has applied for the primary mining permits governing construction, operation and closure for its Gibellini vanadium project, in Eureka county, Nevada. The company believes that the deposit is critical, as Gibellini’s production profile of 9.75-million pounds a... →
Bushveld finalises Vanchem acquisition, on track with yearly guidance 
By: Marleny Arnoldi 7th November 2019 Aim-listed vanadium producer Bushveld Minerals on Thursday announced that all outstanding conditions to the Vanchem and Ivanti acquisition had been fulfilled, effecting the $53.5-million transaction. Bushveld Minerals acquired the Vanchem plant from Vanchem Vanadium Products (VVP) – a... →
Bushveld announces strategy to work with vanadium battery manufacturers
By: Marleny Arnoldi 4th November 2019 Aim-listed Bushveld Minerals intends to establish a vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) investment platform to lead investments for original-equipment manufacturers (OEMs) with upside potential. The company and its initial investment will play a catalytic role and mobilise additional capital... →
Bushveld CEO Fortune Mojapelo
Bushveld supports Avalon, redT merger
By: Simone Liedtke 1st November 2019 Integrated primary vanadium producer Bushveld Minerals has agreed to support the merger of vanadium redox flow battery manufacturer Avalon Battery Corporation and redT energy with interim funding of $5-million. The interim funding will give Bushveld an opportunity to acquire a strategic interest... →
Bushveld Minerals CEO Fortune Mojapelo
Australian Vanadium pinpoints Geraldton for possible plant
By: Esmarie Iannucci 29th October 2019 ASX-listed Australian Vanadium has inked an option agreement to locate a vanadium processing plant near the city of Geraldton, in Western Australia. Some 1 334 acres have been set aside for the proposed plant, with Australian Vanadium paying an option fee of a$28 000. The company would pay a... →
Bushveld negotiates lower price for Vanchem business
By: Marleny Arnoldi 23rd October 2019 Aim-listed Bushveld Minerals has renegotiated the consideration payable for the Vanchem business, reducing the purchase price from $68-million to $53.5-million. Bushveld will pay $30-million of the consideration in cash, with the balance to be funded from unsecured convertible loans. →
Toro defines vanadium resource at Wiluna
By: Esmarie Iannucci 21st October 2019 ASX-listed Toro Energy has reported a maiden vanadium Joint Ore Reserves Committee compliant resource estimate 53.6-million tonnes grading at 0.0382% vanadium pentoxide at its Wiluna uranium project, in Western Australia. The project is estimated to host a contained resource of 68.3-million... →
Brazil vanadium mine delivers record production
By: Creamer Media Reporter 15th October 2019 The Maracás Menchen mine in Bahia state, Brazil, has delivered a new quarter production record of 2 952 t of vanadium pentoxide (V205), reflecting the impact of an expansion project that is now in its final stages of commissioning. The third-quarter production is a 17% increase over that of... →
Häggån battery metals project resource upgraded
By: Creamer Media Reporter 10th October 2019 Dual-listed Aura Energy has declared a new global resource of two-billion tonnes, at an average of 0.3% vanadium, containing 13.3-billion pounds of vanadium at the Häggån battery metals project, in Sweden. The resource estimate includes 320-million pounds of vanadium at 0.35% as indicated... →
Biodiversity, climate everyone’s issues – Environment Minister 
By: Martin Creamer 8th October 2019 South Africa is one of the world’s top three mega biodiverse nations along with Brazil and Indonesia, said Environment Forestry and Fisheries Minister Barbara Creecy in her address to the Oppenheimer Research Conference (ORC). “We are thus one of the richest countries in terms of the diversity of... →
Investment in climate-positive companies growing – Joburg Indaba
By: Martin Creamer 7th October 2019 Asset managers globally have become the lightning rod of populist views in Western countries, with the conversation now dominated by climate-change issues within the environmental, social and governance (ESG) paradigm as well as what the prospective upheaval in the vehicle industry means for... →
Environment government’s most important Ministry – Oppenheimer
By: Martin Creamer 4th October 2019 The Environment Ministry is the most important ministry in the government, former mining luminary Nicky Oppenheimer said at this week’s tenth Oppenheimer Research Conference. “Environment is at the forefront of everybody’s mind, and we in South Africa are unbelievably blessed with the environment... →
New technologies can make mining safer, sunrise industry – Mgojo
By: Martin Creamer 2nd October 2019 The utilisation of new technologies could make mining a sunrise industry while simultaneously addressing safety and health issues, Minerals Council South Africa president Mxolisi Mgojo said on Wednesday. Responding to a question by Joburg Indaba chairperson Bernard Swanepoel following his keynote... →
Bushveld Minerals appoints new FD
By: Marleny Arnoldi 1st October 2019 Aim-listed Bushveld Minerals has appointed Tanyaradzwa Chikanza FD, effective October 1. She is a qualified chartered accountant, with extensive experience in managing publicly listed companies’ relationships with financial markets. →
Bushveld Minerals continues to build on ‘firm foundation’, says Mojapelo
By: Simone Liedtke 30th September 2019 During the six months ended June 30, Aim-listed Bushveld Minerals continued to build on the firm foundation it has established, CEO Fortune Mojapelo said on Monday. He noted that the integrated primary vanadium producer was “enjoying progress across the group” while establishing new platforms for... →
Proudly South African anti-cable theft technology already deployed on 12 sites
By: Martin Creamer 30th September 2019 It has been said that entering the Elvey Security Technologies headquarters in the Greenstone Hill Office Park, in Modderfontein, Edenvale, is like boarding USS Enterprise on a Star Trek movie set. All the futuristic trappings are evident in this Hudaco company’s Pentagon demonstration room,... →
SOLVING A WORLDWIDE PROBLEM Hudaco executive director Louis Meiring (left) and Commercial ICT MD Brad Morein in futuristic demonstration room.
First glimpse into Mining Indaba 2020 programme
By: Martin Creamer 26th September 2019 The twenty-sixth Investing in African Mining Indaba – scheduled to take place in Cape Town from February 3 to 6 next year – will offer delegates new insight into issues facing Africa’s resources sector. “We’re building on the success of the 2019 Mining Indaba in terms of the high level of... →
Australian Vanadium completes raising
By: Esmarie Iannucci 23rd September 2019 ASX-listed Australian Vanadium has raised A$6.6-million through a share placement and share purchase plan (SPP) to advance its namesake project, in Western Australia. The SPP, which was announced in August this year, was well supported and raised A$5.2-million. The SPP allowed eligible... →
MGX eyes vertically integrated vanadium battery JV
By: Creamer Media Reporter 23rd September 2019 Canadian resource and technology company MGX Minerals has announced a partnership with publicly traded company DST to create a joint venture as part of the formation of a vertically integrated vanadium redox battery supplier. The companies entered into a letter of intent to advance a... →
One battery material sector is cheering for lower prices
By: Bloomberg 19th September 2019 Lower prices of vanadium, a metal mainly known for strengthening steel, are key in the drive to increase its use in the booming battery sector, according to the developer of an Australian mine. The metal’s retreat from a price spike in 2018 is being welcomed – rather than lamented – by producers... →
Jubilee notes potential to establish regional refining hub in Zambia
By: Tasneem Bulbulia 17th September 2019 Dual-listed Jubilee Metals Group says there continues to be interest from small to medium-sized mining operators that are keen to have their copper material refined at Jubilee’s Sable Refinery, in Zambia. This aligns well with the AltX- and Aim-listed company’s plans of establishing the Sable... →
American Battery Metals renews Nevada claims
By: Creamer Media Reporter 3rd September 2019 Exploration and development company American Battery Metals has renewed its 1 300 claims with the Bureau of Land Management, covering 10 500 ha in Railroad Valley, Nevada. CEO Doug Cole said on Monday that the move highlighted American Battery’s positive momentum. →
Bushveld receives approval to acquire Vanchem assets
By: Simone Liedtke 29th August 2019 Aim-listed Bushveld Minerals says it has received approval from the Competition Commission of South Africa to acquire the Vanchem assets, without conditions. The transaction currently remains on track to be completed by October 31, and the company is progressing the negotiations with local banks... →
S Africa well placed to supply competitive hydrogen – CSIR
By: Martin Creamer 28th August 2019 South Africa, which has excellent solar and wind energy potential, is well placed to produce and export clean renewable hydrogen, says Council for Scientific and Industrial Research senior research engineer Thomas Roos. Hydrogen is emerging globally as an environmentally friendly energy carrier... →
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research senior research engineer Thomas Roos (right) and Martin Creamer.
Top vanadium producer sees demand rising after prices slump
By: Bloomberg 26th August 2019 Evraz, the world’s largest vanadium producer outside China, said steelmakers are boosting their use of the metal again after it slumped as much as 75% this year. Vanadium, used to strengthen steel, peaked at more than $120/kg at the end of 2018 after No. 1 consumer China implemented new... →
German investment banking boutique enters African market
By: Nadine James 23rd August 2019 Investment banking boutique DGWA - the German Institute for Asset and Equity Allocation and Valuation or “Deutsche Gesellschaft für Wertpapieranalyse GmbH” - has decided to expand its activities in the mining and resources business, specifically expanding into Africa, given the ever-increasing... →
HIGHLY SOUGHT AFTER The European Union is accelerating its investment in the battery metals space, because demand is substantially higher than predicted
Gabanintha to cost $318m
By: Esmarie Iannucci 21st August 2019 A definitive feasibility study (DFS) into the Gabanintha vanadium project, in Western Australia, has found that it could support a 27.9-million pound a year vanadium pentoxide operation with a mine life of 16 years, establishing the project as the world’s largest primary vanadium producer. The... →
Australian Vanadium launches SPP
By: Esmarie Iannucci 21st August 2019 ASX-listed Australian Vanadium has launched an underwritten share purchase plan (SPP) to raise a minimum of A$3.5-million to advance the development of its Australian Vanadium project, in Western Australia. Eligible shareholders will be given the opportunity to subscribe for up to A$15 000 worth... →
Ironveld says several parties interested in Limpopo project
By: Marleny Arnoldi 12th August 2019 London-listed Ironveld’s share price shot up 40% to around 1.04p apiece on Monday after the company announced that several parties were interested in potentially making an offer to purchase all, or part of, its assets. Ironveld owns a high purity iron, vanadium and titanium project located in... →
Bushveld reports best quarterly production rate in two years
By: Rebecca Campbell 9th August 2019 London AIM-listed but South African-based miner Bushveld Minerals has reported that its 74%-owned Vametco vanadium mine – currently the company’s only operating mine – had recorded its highest quarterly production rate in more than two years during the second quarter of this year (2Q19).... →
Bushveld achieves highest quarterly production rate in two years
By: Rebecca Campbell 31st July 2019 London Aim-listed but South Africa-based miner Bushveld Minerals has reported that its 74%-owned Vametco vanadium mine – currently the company’s only operating mine – recorded its highest quarterly production rate in more than two years during the second quarter of this year (2Q19). Production of... →
Namibia attractive landscape, says Canadian miner
By: Tracy Hancock 12th July 2019 Besides the significant lure of Namibia’s mineral-rich geology, the country’s various attributes make it a more attractive investment destination for exploration and development companies than other mining jurisdictions, says Canadian strategic minerals-focused company Broadway Gold Mining... →
Bushveld reports 1.58% vanadium grade for Brits project
By: Marleny Arnoldi 21st June 2019 Aim-listed Bushveld Minerals on Friday announced the maiden mineral resource estimate for its Brits vanadium project, in South Africa’s North West province. Bushveld reported a 66.8-million-tonne aggregate inferred and indicated mineral resource across three seams at the project, grading at an... →
Real-time data playing bigger maintenance role
By: Tracy Hancock 21st June 2019 As the world gears up for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, African mines are embracing real-time information management systems to plug the gap left by the shortage of competent maintenance supervisors and mining equipment operators, Mining Equipment Manufacturers of South Africa CEO Ossie... →
BIG DEAL The decision to buy a piece of equipment should always include maintenance elements
Prophecy’s Gibellini poised to start vanadium production by 2022
By: Simone Liedtke 19th June 2019 TSX-listed Prophecy Development is working towards securing a positive environmental impact statement (EIS) record of decision for its Gibellini vanadium project, in Nevada, by the first quarter of 2021, the company said on Wednesday, noting that it should pave the way for construction to follow... →
Tando soars on SPD plans
By: Esmarie Iannucci 17th June 2019 The share price of ASX-listed Tando Resources closed nearly 18% higher on Monday after the company announced plans to implement parallel development strategies for its SPD vanadium project, in South Africa. The company said that following the results of the May scoping study, the company has... →
Blue Sky sees first-mover advantage in Argentina uranium, vanadium market
By: Nadine James 14th June 2019 TSX-listed Blue Sky Uranium CEO Niko Cacos tells Mining Weekly Online the uranium market is in the early stages of a longer-term rising price trend. Blue Sky, which owns the Amarillo Grande uranium/vanadium project (AGP), in Rio Negro, Argentina, expects to take advantage as uranium prices... →
Corruption, maladministration of royalties leave mine-affected communities high and dry
By: Tracy Hancock 14th June 2019 Maladministration and misappropriation of funds continue to render South Africa’s mining royalties system mostly ineffective, with no one being brought to book. Established to deliver transformation in impoverished, mining-affected communities through the distribution of royalties paid by the... →
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