Lithium may have been the jump start needed to get us running on renewables, but its counterpart, vanadium, might just pip it to the post as a longer-lasting, higher energy competitor.
From our cars to our homes, the idea of running on batteries in lieu of fossil fuels feels less like a matter of if and more a matter of when.
The likes of South Australia have made firm pledges regarding Australia’s renewable energy transition, but there are certain logistical obstacles holding back a full national rollout.
Ferro-Alloy Resources Limited (LON:FAR) is developing the giant Balasausqandiq vanadium deposit in Kyzylordinskaya oblast of southern Kazakhstan. The ore at this deposit is unlike that of nearly all other primary vanadium deposits and is capable of being treated by a much lower cost process.