Largo Resources achieves new vanadium production record
By Liz Gyekye
Published: Thursday, 16 July 2015
The company’s efforts to ramp up output since production began at its Brazilian Maracas Menchen mine in August 2014 is beginning to bear fruit, as it announces a new daily production record. The news puts the company on track to meet its full phase one capacity of 26 tpd by Q3 2015. Largo is targeting its product at the growing vanadium redox battery and steel markets.
TSX-V-listed Largo Resources Ltd has
broken its daily production record for vanadium pentoxide
(V
2
O
5
), producing 26 tonnes of the material in a single day,
the equivalent of 100% design capacity, at its Maracas Menchen
plant in Bahia, Brazil.
In a statement, Largo said that July had so far "proved
to...