Vanadium prospectivityacross Australia, the USA, Canada & worldwide.

MineDSS models two deposit systems: mafic-intrusion titanomagnetite systems and sediment-hosted systems. The first hosts vanadium inside vanadiferous titanomagnetite within large layered mafic-ultramafic intrusions, the dominant source of primary vanadium worldwide. The second concentrates vanadium at low temperature in reduced, organic-rich shales and in sandstones, where it is often paired with uranium in the vanadate carnotite and the vanadium mica roscoelite. The model does not attempt to represent unrelated deposit styles; it ranks ground by how closely its evidence matches ground where samples assay anomalously high for the target mineral.

Every MineDSS model is tested before it is served: we withhold whole blocks of ground, rebuild the model without them, and check that it still ranks the anomalous samples there above background, with test ground kept spatially separate. A model that does not pass our release gates is not used, for any mineral, in any country. National models for vanadium run in Australia, the United States and Canada, with ranked targets. Anywhere else in the world, the global model returns the prospectivity map, the geology behind it and a confidence read. Skill is model-level, never a specific site's measured accuracy, and never a discovery or JORC / NI 43-101 resource claim.

The classic pathfinders are chromium, nickel, cobalt, scandium, uranium, molybdenum and niobium, with chromium, nickel and cobalt leading. Chromium, nickel, cobalt, scandium and niobium trace the mafic-intrusion and titanomagnetite association, where vanadium travels with the same oxides and sulphides as those metals, while uranium and molybdenum track the redox-controlled sediment-hosted setting in which vanadium is fixed in reduced rocks. These elements are part of the geochemical record our models learn from. In a run on any piece of ground, the map itself is read from geology and rock age, gravity and magnetics, radiometrics, terrain, satellite radar and spectral alteration, so it covers ground that has never been sampled.

No. A high score means its evidence closely matches ground where samples assay anomalously high for the target mineral, and it merits closer exploration attention. It is not a discovery, not a JORC or NI 43-101 resource or reserve estimate, and not drilling or investment advice. MineDSS ranks prospectivity to help prioritise where to look; confirming whether vanadium is present, and in what quantity and grade, still requires field programmes, drilling and independent assessment by qualified professionals.