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Golden vanadium concentrate for down-

stream processing to produce
vanadium electrolyte, used in
Deeps vanadium redox flow batteries, a
growing battery storage technol-
ogy.
The company plans to assess
scopes out the high-grade Abenab vana- Jon Dugdale
dium project which produced for
20 years until 1947 and already contains
an inferred resource of 2.8mt @ 0.66% Nosib prospect which previously returned
Namibian V2O5, 2.35% lead and 0.94% zinc. a hit of 53.52m @ 1.15% copper, 0.62%
Bara Consulting and Shango Solutions
V2O5, 3.49% lead and 4.57 g/t silver from
have been engaged to undertake metal-
lurgical test work and resource estimation surface.
Dugdale said as well as metallurgical
vanadium work respectively. work, the company would test for deeper
Gravity concentration studies have al-
stratabound copper-silver sulphide tar-
ready indicated grades of up to 21% V2O5,
14% zinc and 53% lead could be achieved gets.
Drilling has also kicked off at the Khusib
olden Deeps Ltd has launched a while hydrometallurgical leach testing
Gscoping study and subsequent PFS showed extraction rates of up to 95.4% for Springs project which historically produced
into an ambitious plan to build an inte- vanadium. 300,000t @ 10% copper and 584 g/t silver
grated vanadium project capable of pro- Phase 2 studies now under way will to 300m before mining was stopped on an
ducing vanadium electrolyte for the bur- develop a two-stage flowsheet of gravity offsetting fault.
geoning battery storage sector. concentrating then leaching to produce The company has launched a 2,000m
Golden Deeps started study work on its the vanadium electrolyte as well as base diamond programme at Khusib Springs.
vanadium (with copper, lead, zinc and sil- metal by-products. Four holes will test four shallow targets for
ver) deposits in northern Namibia in June. Further south-west, at Nosib, Golden repeats of mineralisation along strike, with
According to Golden Deeps managing Deeps is preparing to start resource esti- 3-5 deeper holes to test the interpreted off-
director Jon Dugdale, the PFS will estab- mation and metallurgical test work on the set of the mineralised zone.
lish the viability of producing a high-grade

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