Booming global demand for battery-powered cars and portable devices such as smart phones and laptops is tipped to provide a boon for a handful of Australian miners producing the key ingredients of nickel, graphite and vanadium.

Ferro-vanadium prices drifted down slightly in Europe on Friday June 13 on generally weak sentiment ahead of the traditional summer slowdown.

American Vanadium is aiming to capture a 20 percent share of the global market for energy-storing vanadium flow batteries by 2020 after it begins production at the only vanadium mine in the United States, its chief executive said.

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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.