Haggan scoping study5 Sep 2023 12:47
Knew this would be huge, it’s a world class project that will likely attract a major miner into a JV or will involve a direct sale.
What’s important is that vanadium and sulphate of potash are the biggest value drivers of the project NOT uranium.
There is the optionality to go ahead without extracting the uranium and hence the existing uranium ban is not a blocker any more. (While the chances of getting the uranium ban overturned are looking quite good and the government has been making the right noises it’s not totally dependent on this outcome)
Of course the project economics will be even more robust with the full suite & the byproducts
The Project's major value drivers are vanadium and the key agricultural by-product sulphate of potash (SOP), with a mixed sulphide precipitate of nickel, zinc, and molybdenum proposed to be produced. Uranium is present in the polymetallic resource, like many deposits in Sweden, and while it can add to the Project's economic value there exists at present a ban on the mining of uranium in Sweden. The Scoping Study outlines an option for a treatment and stabilisation plan that would treat the uranium into an inert safe waste product for long-term disposal or with approval from the government and community recover it in the processing circuit for sale into the domestic and or European markets.