Industrial Minerals


American Vanadium not expecting critical mineral exports cull

05 March 2012

by Simon Moores

Sole US vanadium developer says it does not fear government interference

American Vanadium Corp., the US's only developer of the critical mineral derivative, vanadium pentoxide, has told IM that it aims to make batteries for the US, not China.

"We are not going to be shipping tank-loads of vanadium to China," the company's president and CEO Bill Radvak explained to IM. "We aim to make the batteries here in the US."

The company, which is...