XTRACT × AVANTIS: Establishing a Project Synergy
XTRACT has established a synergy with AVANTIS, a Horizon Europe initiative addressing Europe’s low-grade vanadium-bearing titanomagnetite deposits across Finland, Sweden, Greenland, Norway, Poland and Ukraine.
These deposits are currently uneconomic due to their complex mineralogy. Without selective blasting, selective fragmentation, and pre-concentration technologies to separate the Ti-rich ilmenite grains from the V-bearing magnetite, their exploitation is not viable. By combining forensic geometallurgy with a novel selective-blasting strategy, AVANTIS aims to enhance early mineral liberation while reducing downstream energy use.
In parallel, AVANTIS will develop tailored water-free and water-lean pre-concentration technologies to generate two separate products:
- a Ti-rich ilmenite pre-concentrate
- an ilmenite-free V pre-concentrate
This synergy supports exchange around responsible mining approaches in Europe and contributes to improved resource efficiency in the context of critical raw materials.
