Post by
kallelin on May 15, 2024 11:15pm
Obscured ilmenite sales price
The report doesn't say what their realized price per ton for ilmenite is.
But it says they sold 513 tonnes of ilmenite.
And it reports total revenue of $42,187,000, and revenues of $42,118,000 in the vanadium section.
Even if all the other revenue ($69,000) is from ilmenite sold, they're only netting $134 per tonne, which is super low; I'm seeing over $300/tonne for most grades I can find online. Maybe it's because they've just kicked it off, I think they mentioned low grades at the start that they expect to improve.
It does say they sold 8,363 tonnes of ilmenite in April, so maybe they've been able to realize better prices. Even at those prices though it's another $1.125 million of revenue, which helps considering we're hemorrhaging money at this V prices. If they can realize prices closer to $300/tonne, even better, though, obviously.
Hopefully the batteries coming online and competitors going down will bring this price back up in the very near-term.
Comment by
kha341 on May 16, 2024 1:09am
The 2023 ramp up production of ilmenite was 814 tonnes, 2,546 tonnes and 5,610 tonnes in October, November and December respectively, for a total of 8,670T. The 8,363T of Ilmenite sold in April had to come from this ramp up lot therefore they were of low quality and most likely sold at below US$200/T at best.