Fodere Titanium Limited is a United Kingdom registered minerals technology company which has developed a new and innovative commercial process for the titanium, vanadium, iron and steel industries. Disruptive and Game changing technology; able to extract value from a wide variety of feedstocks including tailings, derived from the iron, steel and vanadium industries.
Fodere have developed applications in extractive metallurgy designed to extract titanium dioxide, vanadium pentoxide and other valuable products from low-grade ores and waste stockpiles. Titanium dioxide has a number of uses, the main one being as a feedstock for producing pigments. Other applications include conversion to titanium metal. Vanadium pentoxide is an intermediate product which is generally converted to ferrovanadium. A new and growing use is to convert from the pentoxide form to vanadium compounds used in redox- flow batteries, a new kind of highly-efficient heavy-storage battery.
Fodere’s process, will deliver significantly lower costs than existing methods, allowing the treatment of ores and stockpiles hitherto uneconomic to treat. Such material could thus be acquired at relatively low cost, either directly or via JVs with the owners on attractive terms for Fodere.
Fodere has developed a process to extract titanium dioxide and certain intermediate products, importantly iron oxide and vanadium pentoxide from ores and/or waste stockpiles containing principally titanium dioxide.
Existing processes essentially use reduction in a high-temperature kiln followed by acid leaching. Fodere’s process does the same, but does the reduction at much lower temperature (one cost reduction); and gets target recoveries at a much coarser grind size (another energy & thus cost saving).
The existing processes also require additional complex and expensive steps to recover other metals, whereas Fodere’s does so by sequential precipitation from the leaching (another large cost saving). Fodere estimates that the cost savings mean this process could be used to treat material currently uneconomic to treat by existing processes.
The additive also gives advantages in terms of purity of final product, and because the process can be used to extract other products, the waste is much more environmentally friendly than that produced by existing processes which also represents a cost saving and/or reason to use our process where existing processes would be impossible to use.
Fodere has developed a process to extract titanium dioxide and certain intermediate products, importantly iron oxide and vanadium pentoxide from ores and/or waste stockpiles containing principally titanium dioxide.
Existing processes essentially use reduction in a high-temperature kiln followed by acid leaching. Fodere’s process does the same, but does the reduction at much lower temperature (one cost reduction); and gets target recoveries at a much coarser grind size (another energy & thus cost saving).
The existing processes also require additional complex and expensive steps to recover other metals, whereas Fodere’s does so by sequential precipitation from the leaching (another large cost saving). Fodere estimates that the cost savings mean this process could be used to treat material currently uneconomic to treat by existing processes.
The additive also gives advantages in terms of purity of final product, and because the process can be used to extract other products, the waste is much more environmentally friendly than that produced by existing processes which also represents a cost saving and/or reason to use our process where existing processes would be impossible to use.