Open a toolbox, pull out a spanner and you may be holding a bit of the answer to global warming: vanadium, a metal named after Vanadis, the Scandinavian goddess of beauty. Used mostly in alloys to strengthen steel, its appearance may not live up to the romance of its name. Yet vanadium could become a vital ingredient in large clean-energy batteries, in which case it will shine a lot brighter.
Bushveld Minerals (LON:BMN) Limited is an integrated vanadium producer supplying more than 3% of the global vanadium with plans to grow this to >5% in the short term.