Largo begins copper and PGM production at Brazil vanadium mine

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Largo Starts Production of Copper and Platinum Group Metals as By-Products of Vanadium Operations Following Mining Agency Approval

August 10, 2026 7:57 AM EDT

All amounts expressed are in U.S. dollars, denoted by "$".

Key Highlights:

Approval of Brazil's National Mining Agency ("ANM") allows Largo to produce and sell copper concentrates with platinum group metals ("PGM") from its Maracs Menchen mine in addition to vanadium, titanium and iron.

Industrial-scale flotation tests at Largo's operations this year demonstrated the potential technical and commercial viability of recovering commercial-grade copper-PGM concentrates with platinum, gold, palladium, silver, cobalt and nickel.

Largo is commencing the ramp-up of copper-PGM concentrate production and temporarily suspending ilmenite (titanium)... More