But I don't believe Anglo American's polyhalite project will fail. I have the vision, from that empathetic therapsid, that polyhalite will be key to ushering in the sustainable new age of agriculture. And the leaders at Anglo Amercian share the same vision. It is one of the five largest mining companies in the world, and a very special one, committed to sustainability. Since his appointment as CEO in 2020, Duncan Wanblad has been shifting the pillars of the company over to three substances that are key for environmentally friendly solutions: copper, environmentally clean steel, and polyhalite.

Copper is necessary for solar panels, for the electrical generators that will go into windmills, and in the devices to capture energy from swells in the ocean. It's also necessary to convert electricity into movement – to power electric trains, subways, and other vehicles for transport.  All the envisioned developments for clean energy are based on copper, a miracle element for sustainability. 

Steel, more specifically, environmentally clean steel, is also key for sustainablity. Since humans moved out of the Bronze Age, steel has been the go-to element of choice for all sorts of applications from kitchen knives to bridges, tunnels, cars, kitchen sinks and myriad other uses. Anglo American has developed processes for creating steel that are environmenally clean. They are using iron ore from their Minas-Rio mine in Brazil as feedstock for direct reduced iron (DRI) production, which is significantly less carbon-intensive than traditional blast furnaces!