ScandiVanadium Ltd (ASX:SVD) has started drilling at its Skåne Vanadium Project in southern Sweden, testing the thickness and grade of the Dictyonema seam as well as providing core metallurgical test work.
Drilling is expected to take three weeks to complete and is targeting the Hörby licence at the northern end of the project area.
Targeting vanadium-bearing Dictyonema seam
Drilling at Hörby will comprise diamond holes of up to 125 metres depth targeting the prospective vanadium-bearing Dictyonema seam which occurs near-surface at the prospect.
The area is one of forest re-growth covering an area previously excavated for peat.
Extensive drilling for water has mapped the stratigraphy and showed the target strata dips 10 to 15 degrees southeast.
Unusually high concentrations of vanadium
Skåne is on the southernmost tip of Sweden, about an hour’s drive from Malmö and 90 minutes from the nearest international airport at Copenhagen.
It consists of 11 granted licences totalling about 220 square kilometres.
The presence of unusually high concentrations of vanadium in the Dictyonema formation was first identified in 1940 when mining and production of vanadium pentoxide was conducted during World War II.