Australian Vanadium consolidates position with new mining licence to extend flagship project

Australian Vanadium Ltd (ASX:AVL) has extended its footprint for the Australian Vanadium Project at Gabanintha in WA's Mid-West with a mining licence application covering southern mineral resource fault blocks.

The resource within the lease application area (MLA 51/890) contains inferred resources in fault blocks 60 and 70 totalling 27.5 million tonnes at 0.76% vanadium pentoxide including 14.8 million tonnes at 0.99% of high-grade (HG) massive magnetite zone.

A 3D Magnetic Inversion model shows that there is an additional strike of 500 metres with the potential for further high-quality resources pending drilling.

AVL managing director Vincent Algar said: “Australian Vanadium has now consolidated its entire strike of mineralisation into mining licence applications, ensuring a strong future for the project.

“The mineral resources in MLA 51/890 will not form part of the bankable feasibility study (BFS), but will offer opportunities for optimisation, scaling of production and mine-life extensions in the future.”

3D magnetic inversion model[hhmc]

The proposed process to extract vanadium uses a magnetic separation circuit and AVL has identified that the magnetic susceptibility can be used to target areas that show higher magnetism and less weathering nearer the surface.

A 3D magnetic inversion model was completed using 50-metre aeromagnetic flight lines from a 2006 survey over the entire length of the magnetite with the result aiding targeting for the drilling of fault blocks 50 and 60 completed in December 2019.

The drilling results add flexibility to the mine schedule in the BFS, allowing strongly magnetic material to be processed early in the mine life, increasing vanadium recovery.

Project location and tenure with mining lease application MLA 51/890 southern extension.

Previous drilling results[hhmc]

The mineral resources defined within the licence area were estimated using results from a series of drilling programs conducted on the deposit in 2008, 2009, 2015 and 2019.

Fault block 70 has an existing inferred mineral resource based on drilling completed during 2008 and 2009, with best results of

• 16 metres at 1.12% from 36 metres, including 11 metres at 1.25% from 40 metres;
• 33 metres at 1.08% from 46 metres, including 9 metres at 1.22% from 61 metres;
• 15 metres at 1.06% from 62 metres, incRead More – Source
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