Abstract: The invention provides for the orchestrated treatment of disparate fractions of a shale deposit to recover vanadium values, with distinct steps of beneficiation that together provide a combined vanadium-enriched concentrate amenable to subsequent combined steps of hydrometallurgical vanadium extraction.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 19, 2021
Date of Patent:
July 11, 2023
Assignee:
First Vanadium Corp.
Inventors:
David Dreisinger, Jodi Esplin, Mike Johnson, Gary Kordosky, Erin Legault, Michael Mracek, Frederick Sveinson, Sandra Sveinson, Radomir Vukcevic