As Australia seeks to reduce emissions, and as international tensions highlight the country’s reliance on volatile trade relationships, experts say the mining sector has a pivotal role to play in securing a self-sufficient, greener nation. Australia holds the third largest amount of vanadium in the world, yet doesn’t produce any. International tensions, a focus of renewable energy, and overpopulation are factors driving up demand. Australia has an “enormous” opportunity to supply the world with the “new-economy mineral”. It is vanadium mining that has got industry experts excited.