AVANTIS - consortium meeting in Kraków

On April 20th and 21st, AVANTIS: "Sustainable, decarbonised co-extraction of vanadium and titanium minerals from Europe's low-grade vanadium-bearing titanomagnetite deposits", consortium meeting was organized at the AGH University of Krakow.

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AVANTIS’ rationale is that Europe has a multitude of unexploited, low-grade V-bearing titanomagnetite deposits in Finland, Sweden, Greenland, Norway, Poland and Ukraine. However, these deposits have a complex “spiderweb-like” mineral assemblage. Without novel blasting methods, selective fragmentation and pre-concentration technologies to separate the Ti-rich ilmenite grains from the V-bearing magnetite, these deposits are not economically viable. Supported by a bespoke forensic geometallurgy, AVANTIS develops a novel selective-blasting approach that allows for rock excavation with increased mineral liberation ratio at the blasting stage, and reduced energy demand in the crushing and grinding stages. Likewise, AVANTIS designs tailored, water-free and water-lean pre-concentration technologies that can produce two distinct pre-concentrates: ilmenite-rich, Ti-pre-concentrate and ilmenite-free, V-pre-concentrate. The water-lean method is also tailored to process V/Ti-bearing mining wastes from historical as well as current operations. The resulting flowsheets have a low net consumption of water and reduced GHG emissions during extraction.

The project coordinator at AGH is prof. Adam Piestrzyński.