Vanadium

The Territory is prospective yet underexplored for vanadium, a key battery metal.

Prospectivity

Exploration potential exists throughout the Aileron Province for mafic-hosted vanadium magnetite occurrences. Tivan Ltd’s Mount Peake deposit in the northern Aileron Province near Barrow Creek contains the Territory’s largest high grade vanadium resource, associated with vanadium- rich magnetite in near-surface mafic intrusion.

Vanadium also occurs in sandstone-hosted uranium deposits in Central Australia. Energy Metal Ltd’s Bigrlyi deposit is a shallow sandstone-hosted uranium-vanadium deposit that occurs on the edge of the Ngalia Basin. Laterite-hosted vanadium mineralisation has been recorded in the Carpentaria Basin. Transition Minerals Ltd announced a maiden Inferred Mineral Resource at the Barkly REE-V project, where vanadium is hosted within the lateritic regolith profile.

Projects

JORC resources

Region	Deposit	Resource	Company
Aileron Province	Mount Peake	160.4 Mt @ 0.28% V₂O₅, 5.3% TiO₂, 23% Fe	Tivan Ltd
Carpentaria Basin	Barkly	200 Mt @ 0.12% V2O5, 30 ppm Ga	Transition Minerals Ltd
Ngalia Basin	Bigryli	7.5 Mt @ 0.13% U₃O₈, 0.12% V₂O₅	Energy Metals Ltd

More information

NTGS reports and publications

Vanadium search in GEMIS
Beyer et al (2016). Summary of results. NTGS laser ablation ICP-MS in situ zircon and baddeleyite geochronology project: Mount Peake Gabbro, Arunta Region. NTGS Record 2016-002.
Schmid et al 2012. JSU Ngalia Basin Uranium Mineral System Project, NTGS Record 2012-003.

Last updated:

10 April 2024

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