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dubmaskullanga - to make it easier here's the quoted resource sizes:-

Bushveld Minerals

1) Bushveld Vametco 187 Million tonnes of ore at 0.78% = 1,450 Kilotonnes of contained V2O5
2) Bushveld Brits 67 Million tonnes of ore at 0.58% = 372 Kilotonnes of contained V2O5
3) Bushveld Mokopane 297.2 Million tonnes of ore at 0.68% = 2,028 Kilotonnes of contained V2O5

Total = 2028+1450+372 = 3,850 Kilotonnes of contained V2O5

Ferro-alloy Resources

1) Balasausqandiq 24.3 Million tonnes of ore at 0.68% = 165 Kilotonnes of contained V2O5

As you will see there is no comparison.

wrong again. Mokopane is not even in production yet. As I said you will have to educate yourself as I am not wasting my time doing it.

but you keep up your crazed ramp as I have better things to do with my time than educate those that cannot be bothered to even go looking for facts let alone get them right.

This of course compares with the Balasausqandiq Project which has an ore resource of c. 24 Million tonnes at 0.68%.

http://www.ferro-alloy.com/en/project/mineral-resource/

Thus it is pretty easy to see that the BMN resource is 12 times larger, and furthermore since the Mokopane feasibility study was published in 2017 BMN have since acquired a second brownfield processing facility at Vanchem which is currently being ramped up to production volumes of >4,000 Tonnes V per year. Thus you can forget about spending hundreds of millions of dollars on processing plants because BMN already has two of them.

and no the current best project in the world is not FirstVanadium corp. It is Bushveld Minerals Mokopane project, which has a resource of 297 Million tonnes at 0.68% V2O5 giving a contained V2O5 mass of 2.028 Million Tonnes.

... or maybe you have been wondering how much the two titans of the Vanadium space that you mentioned previously actually produce -"First Vanadium Corp and Vanadiumcorp Resources" - the answer is easy as it is zero.

However you neglected to mention a single one of the 3 Vanadium primary miners that exist outside of China - namely Glencore, Largo and of course Bushveld Minerals which I know a thing about having followed them for 5 years and having visited their mine and production plant. These all produce Vanadium from VTM ores, quite unlike what FAR wishes to do - the key point is obvious - there is not a single primary producing mine in the world that produces Vanadium from the type of ore that FAR is proposing to do.

So good luck with that and looking for the finance to pay for it.

Maybe you have been biting your lip wondering how much dilution there is to come to raise the money needed to even finish the pilot plant you've been working on since 2017

perhaps one of you well researched investors can tell me your production cost ?

@Snott - alfabot disagrees with your 'human' comment

or do a google search and go to https://www.thebushveldperspective.com/

Sorry, nobody has done any real research on this stock

nothing really you should invest in FAR

Bricks92 - hardly independent as it is Andrew Monk of VSA capital who is doing the recommending in that part of the article.

Of course this is the same VSA capital who advised on the last placing for the company.

https://vsacapital.com/vsa-capital-acted-as-financial-adviser-to-ferro-alloy-resources-on-its-0-5m-subscription/

Pat48 - I suspect that they are rather busy - fortunately Joanne Dean of the South African Energy Storage Association is going to be speaking. This of course is the SAESA which Mikhail setup and chairs.

Note - both the video and the diagram on this page ( https://www.thebushveldperspective.com/blog/public-articles-1/post/what-is-a-redox-flow-battery-219 ) correctly show this mechanism. Some schematics of Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries systems show two tanks on either side of the battery (so 4 tanks in all) to try and make the explanation simpler, but this is not strictly correct in practise.

Note non -all-Vanadium flow batteries may need to have 4 separate tanks because, for example one of the species may change state - eg Bromine from an ion in solution to a gas. These different states may need to have different storage mechanisms, eg Bromine doesn't really like to dissolve in water but it can dissolve somewhat easier in organic (flammable) solvents. This is yet another way in which all-Vanadium flow batteries work very well in practise.

No careful bunny the problem with that approach is that it required almost perfect reaction of the electrolyte inside the power stack (or else you'd be chucking only 60%,70%,80% etc reacted electrolyte into the 'done' tank) which would require the last bits of the power stack to work with almost completely reacted 'lean' electrolyte whilst the first bits of the stack are indulged with super 'rich' electrolyte. That approach would make stack design a real headache and would mean that you then need to run the flow in reverse when you are charging vs discharging - a headache squared.

Instead the systems are designed to only react something like 10% of the ions in the electrolyte each time the electrolyte passes through it - the reacted electrolyte on one side of the battery then gets returned to the same tank it came from and over the course of time the reacted stuff and the initial stuff mix so that the overall reacted density in the tank drops a bit. The flow is always in the same direction, power stacks can be designed so that every bit of the stack works just as hard as every other bit and the pumps only have to run in one direction. As a result it is possible to switch from charge to discharge without having to change flow direction and so it therefore becomes possible to do this in less than a few milliseconds (assuming the pumps are on).

for those who were not aware of the precise location of the Dalian battery it is shown here.

https://twitter.com/BMNperspective/status/1316987149984665601

A dedicated team of BMN shareholders worked this out 6 months ago

don't be so touchy bassguy

Indeed the point you are making LinkedDreams is that someone on the L2B website - a completely independent entity with nothing to do with BMN made a data entry mistake. The company corrected the facts when they were made aware of the error ... and now we have people on this board who claim to be investors in the business bringing it up as an example of bad PR. Oh yeah.

Bassguy - that is where you are wrong - to short you need 1) someone prepared to lend you shares to do the shorting with and 2) an SP that has been pumped high enough to give you a good chance of making money on the short.

2B) (is perhaps optional) but if you can do it on a share dominated by private investors many of which may be ill-researched, or buying with leveraged funds, then the shorter can increase their chances of success, especially if they are able to talk the share down on public forums.

Personally I think it is not just a despicable way to make money, akin to ambulance chasing and insurance fraud, but I think that it is also risky as there are so many unknowns. I would much rather make money by doing proper research, find an unloved company with great prospects, buy as many shares as I can, and then wait for everyone else to catch up. Sort of like what Warren Buffet does.

That is why I bought another 5 grands worth in the last week. Nearly got 11 million now.