Monax picks up another battery metals project – this time it’s vanadium
Date: Aug 20, 2018
Vanadium is a medium-hard, steel-blue metal that is malleable, ductile and corrosion-resistant. Pic: Getty
Junior explorer Monax Mining has struck a deal to buy into a vanadium project in Western Australia’s mid-west region.
Monax (ASX:MOX), which was once solely focused on gold exploration, can earn up to an 80 per cent stake in Mithril Resources’ (ASX:MTH) Limestone Well vanadium project by spending $2.5 million over the next five years.
The company had been looking for something to supercharge its share price and in March revealed it favoured lithium.
Two months later Monax inked a deal that gave it the option to acquire a 90 per cent interest in an exploration licence at Moolyella in West Australia’s Pilbara region – 80km from Pilbara Minerals’ (ASX:PLS) massive Pilgangoora lithium and tantalum project – one of the biggest hard-rock lithium projects in the world.
“Battery metals are well supported by the market at the moment and obviously the price of those commodities is quite high as well,” boss Ian Gordon told Stockhead previously.
Vanadium is the best performing battery metal – more than doubling in the past year and rocketing over 300 per cent since January 2016.
