I did not know about the Australian reserves. There's not that much in terms of mineral specimens for collectors either. Mindat shows 36 valid species with V, but the vast majority of those are really minor occurrences.
Apparently the USGS value for Australian reserves for 2025 reflects a significant revision upward "based on company and government reports," to 10,000,000 metric tons out of the world total of 21,000,000, but they also say "For Australia, Joint Ore Reserves Committee-compliant or equivalent reserves were 2.3 million tons." So make of that what you will.
I did not know about the Australian reserves. There's not that much in terms of mineral specimens for collectors either. Mindat shows 36 valid species with V, but the vast majority of those are really minor occurrences.
Apparently the USGS value for Australian reserves for 2025 reflects a significant revision upward "based on company and government reports," to 10,000,000 metric tons out of the world total of 21,000,000, but they also say "For Australia, Joint Ore Reserves Committee-compliant or equivalent reserves were 2.3 million tons." So make of that what you will.