Australian Vanadium Limited (AVL) has announced it received a water licence to extract groundwater for its vanadium processing plant in Western Australia.
The Western Australian Department of Water and Environmental Regulation (DWER) granted the licence under section 5C of the Rights in Water and Irrigation Act 1914. The Licence allows AVL to take 1.2GL of water per year for industrial processing at the Processing Plant site. The Licence is initially awarded for 10 years, after which a standard renewal process is anticipated to preserve the Licence for ongoing operations.
“Securing water for the Processing Plant is a key step forward in the Company’s work to bring the Australian Vanadium Project into production. I would like to thank the AVL team, our external consultants, and the team at DWER for the detailed and diligent work undertaken, culminating in the successful approval of our water licence,” AVL CEO Graham Arvidson said.
The Australian Vanadium Project mine site, which will feed vanadium concentrate to the Processing Plant, is located roughly 40 kilometres south of the mining town of Meekatharra in Western Australia. To ensure a low-cost operation, AVL will crush, mill, and beneficiate vanadium-bearing magnetite ore at the mine site before transporting the resulting concentrate to the proposed Processing Plant for final refinement into high-quality, high-value vanadium products.
