Strategic minerals producer Largo Resources has qualified its vanadium pentoxide product produced at the flagship Maracás Menchen mine, in Bahia, Brazil, for use by a major North American producer of master alloys for the aerospace industry.
High-purity vanadium pentoxide is used in the production of vanadium master alloys used by the global titanium alloy industry. Vanadium-based master alloys are critical, non-replaceable materials used in the production of various titanium alloys for aerospace, industrial, and other applications.
