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or is it impossible to get a quote to even buy 100 pounds worth ?

bassguy - when you are tendering for a project you do not publish the fact

Introv - in my opinion Rongke have got more than enough on their plate at the moment and we have two VRFB manufacturers of our own.

maybe there are other financiers involved in, say, a leasing arrangement.

Pat48 - Enerox, Invinity ?

you realise that this is only relevant at megabar pressures

come, on let's see if they can reach one hundred pounds before lunch !

pb940 - I suspect not as the one most talked about in this context is Lithium Vanadium Phosphate - however that also looks rather interesting.

Chemists and Physicists will not of course be surprised that Vanadium can make a contribution like this - it is the presence of a number of low energy d-level electron states that allows the Vanadium atom to have many different oxidation states and is what gives is the ability to coordinate with neighbouring atoms in a number of different ways. In this configuration it is providing a temporary home for a lithium visitor whilst not mucking up its permanent bonding with Oxygen in the crystal structure. With other atoms you are forced to have one or the other but not both.

VauxhallViva - Nickel is probably not on their critical materials list because over 40% of Nickel used inside the EU is produced from recycling and only 2-3% of Nickel actually goes to the production of batteries.

I see that the European Union has Vanadium on its list of critical raw materials

https://ec.europa.eu/docsroom/documents/42849

They don't mention it in the latest publication but this is due to the EU being 84% dependent on imports and only 2% recycled.

They haven't spotted yet that it can be used in batteries, thinking that only Graphite, Lithium, Nickel and Cobalt are relevant (that's what you get if you only get your data from the European 'Batteries' Alliance) - but they will, they will.

Northbank - you can contact me here editorial at thebushveldperspective.com

with pure cassiterite containing 78.8% tin by mass we are getting a total of 68% tin in the concentrate - this puts the concentrate at a purity level of 87% pure cassiterite - this is already pretty good - see the following from the encyclopedia britannica

"Tin concentrates from the alluvial mining areas of Southeast Asia are relatively free of impurities, although there may be small quantities of related minerals such as wolframite, scheelite, and columbite. Concentrates shipped to the smelter usually contain 70 to 75 percent tin metal. On the other hand, the complex sulfide ores found in underground deposits, such as those of Bolivia, require more complicated mineral processing, often involving froth flotation, in order to produce a clean tin concentrate. Even then, Bolivian concentrates may average only 50 to 60 percent tin."

https://www.britannica.com/technology/tin-processing/Mining-and-concentrating

Pure tin is currently selling at $18100 a tonne. At 60 tonnes concentrate production per month, at a tin concentration of 68% the revenue would be USD 0.74M per month, or USD 8.9M per year. Not bad for a company currently supposedly only worth GBP 18M

Maybe they are saving up to buy out knuttie's stake ?

JMC - no that area has been clear since at least dec last year - I think it is where they park up the trucks and diggers for the mine.

There is, however, another area, which is much larger, which is being worked on right now ....

Congratulations to Pdub and GND from everyone in the UK Bushveld family.

DNP - remember that someone has to flip 6M shares they bought at 8p - they are unlikely to drop the price below that before those shares have been sold out. Then... we shall see.

I wonder if that explains some unusual new developments at Vametco

Faramog - I think the ramper being suggested was minorminer

knuttie - I don't think he is as bad as that - as AIMchaos he produced some very detailed fundamental analyses on companies such as BMN and Mkango Resources

WHAT ?

a second electrolyte plant ?