I’m not sure how familiar everyone is with the Salt Roast Process, why we use it and what it does or indeed how it is affected by different inputs so I’ve put together a brief description for everyone. [Interested readers may subsequently wish to read Alfacomp's article on the Vametco...

Battery Materials Review - Recharge Podcast Recently Matt Fernley of Battery Materials Review [1]  conducted a fascinating podcast interview with Fortune and Mikhail on the subject of Vanadium and the prospects for VRFB batteries. You can listen to the   PODCAST (start 25.55) [2] - or follow the transcript below,...

Bushveld Minerals The appearance on Friday the 10th May of the following notification of a short position on Bushveld Minerals [1]  confirmed what had been suspected for some time - namely that in the last few weeks there *had* been systematic shorting of BMN. This of course followed hard on...

Dear Sirs, we are writing in reference to the ongoing case ref 205882095 (Bushveld Minerals) - since the 8th of April 2019 it has become apparent that there have been regular systematic sequences of trading designed to reduce the share price of this security (LSE:BMN) - this would appear to...

Following on from the previous conference reports that described the overall potential for VRFBs in grid-scale Energy Storage [1] and the expected future development of a $50 Billion dollar worldwide grid-scale Energy Storage sector [2] I now turn to discussions with some of the VRFB manufacturers present at the conference...

In  part 1 [1]  of this report on Energy Storage Europe 2019 I reviewed Oliver Schmidt's paper in order to give an overview of the most competitive stationary storage technologies right now and in the future - but what about the *size* of the opportunity for stationary storage ? *In...

Last week I had the opportunity to attend the Energy Storage Europe 2019 conference and exhibition, held in Dusseldorf. This was held in conjunction with the International Renewable Energy Storage conference, hosted by Eurosolar [1] , and is also part of a series of Energy Storage conferences in the US,...

For the third chapter within this series and one of the highlights of an extensive itinerary, our journey takes us from the heartlands of Bushveld Minerals' Vanadium operation at Vametco, and on to  Bushveld Energy's [1]   vision for the future of South Africa's major utility supplier, Eskom. Following insightful...

Following our enthralling tour of the Vametco mine, we continued on to the Vametco processing plant. Before we dive into the detailed processing sequence covered within this article, it is recommended readers take a look at  Ophidian's outline of Vametco Processing [1]  for some helpful background information. Vametco is a...

Last week I had the great pleasure of taking part in a site visit to Bushveld's Vametco mine, near Brits in South Africa . To find out more about the remarkable back-story behind the  purchase of this highly strategic primary vanadium producing asset please read the  previous article on Vametco...

Nelson Mandela, president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country's first black head of state and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election. His government focused on dismantling the legacy of apartheid by tackling institutionalised racism and fostering racial reconciliation in South Africa. He...

A High Level View of the Mining and Plant operations at Vametco We can broadly speaking break the process down into the following very high level steps: Prospect the whole area so we know where to dig  Dig out the rocks  Process the Rocks (broken down into) Crush up the...

The 28th October Article 'When will First Island clear ?' [1] started out thus :- The 1st October TR1 RNS [2] that indicated that First Island had reduced their holding by around 8 Million shares (to sub 3% of the business) resolved one question - who was selling during the...

The arrival of strange after hours trades has been going on for the last month or so. Typically these arrive just after 5pm and are marked on the London Stock Exchange website [1] with the unusual flags 'TNCP' and 'SINT', eg:- Apparently 'TNCP' means "Non Price Contribution to Discovery" and...

Note – This set of posts should be read in conjunction with my other recent lengthy efforts entitled ‘BE Your Time is Coming’ [1]  and   ‘BE - Eskom Battery Mandate.’ [2] Given the fact that we have effectively been told to expect the launch of Bushveld Energy this year...

The notification on the 12th of November that the remaining 3.60M Warrants held by Wogen were being exercised [1]  now means that there are *no warrants left.* The previous article describing the pre-selling of the Atlas warrants [2] explained how delayed reports of trades had appeared to mask the fact...

Chapter 1 The arrival, on the 6th of November, of notification that None [1]*all* 6.257M of the outstanding warrants held by Atlas were being exercised  has resulted in a situation where there are now only 3.6M warrants left remaining [2] and these are held by Wogen, our metals trading partner....

In the last couple of weeks I posted on the LSE Bushveld Minerals (BMN) forum that I believed that I have found out where the first ‘large scale mandates’ for Bushveld Energy were going to come from and that it was, to begin with, circa 800MWh. Almost immediately after that,...

I have been looking at the historical developments that have guided Bushveld Energy (*BE*) and their associated stakeholders to this point in time On 13th June 2016 BE announced its co-operation agreement with the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) of SA [1] Christo Fourie, Head of the New Industries Strategic Business...

The 1st October TR1 RNS [1] that indicated that First Island had reduced their holding by around 8 Million shares (to sub 3% of the business) resolved one question - who was selling during the post-strike/post-Sojitz price recovery. However it raised another one - namely would they continue selling ?...