Bold action is needed by South Africa Inc to take ownership of the significant potential share of the global battery metals market open to it, says Bushveld Minerals CEO Fortune Mojapelo. Speaking to Mining Weekly following this week’s presentation by the company of solid 2019 financial results and maintenance of its vanadium production guidance for this year, Mojapelo sketched the big picture of the huge potential that South Africa has to carve out a major slice of the battery metals market at a time of an increasing number of macro factors that are elevating the energy storage market to heady new heights.
