Recent months have seen a vanadium price surge of more than 50%! In January 2016, FeV80 prices were below US$13/kgV. This was in-spite of the closure of Highveld Steel & Vanadium (“HSV”) which took as much as 11% of the vanadium feedstock out of the market. The gloom among producers was understandable. Bushveld Minerals’ choice […]
“The Story of South Africa’s Global Energy Coup” – that is the title of the introduction to the special supplement in South Africa’s leading financial publication, the Business Day of 31 October 2016, which provides extensive detailing and commemoration of 5 years of South Africa’s Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer (REIPP) procurement programme. REIPP has […]
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In mid-October, London hosted the semi-annual meeting of Vanitec, the global body of vanadium producers and processors. Over the past decade it has contributed over USD 8 million on research activities to support topics such as health, safety, environmental impact and vanadium usage. The latter activity has historically focused on steel, but 18 months ago, […]
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