The cast alloys crystallizing in Fe-C-V system are classified as white cast iron, because all the carbon is bound in vanadium carbides. High
vanadium cast iron has a very high abrasion resistance due to hard VC vanadium carbides. However, as opposed to ordinary white cast
iron, this material can be treated using conventional machining tools. This article contains the results of the group of Fe-C-V alloys of
various microstructure which are been tested metallographic, mechanical using an INSTRON machine and machinability with the method
of drilling. The study shows that controlling the proper chemical composition can influence on the type and shape of the crystallized
matrix and vanadium carbides. This makes it possible to obtain a high-vanadium cast iron with very high wear resistance while
maintaining a good workability.