Likasi / Boca Raton / West Perth / Cobalt / Gorham / Casablanca / Cobalt Industry Restructuring / Lubumbashi / Toronto / Guildford / St. Louis / Denver / Noumea / Brisbane / Fredericktown / Laurinburg / Sydney / Kinshasa / Vadodara / Townsville / Moscow / Xanten / Lusaka / Montreal / Pelham / Tokyo / Towanda / Springs / Pittsburgh / Salt Lake City / Espoo / Vancouver / Sandouville / Bogota / Cleveland / Marshalltown / Mumbai / Johannesburg / Perth / Fort Saskatchewan / Pretoria / New York / Thompson / Düsseldorf / Port Colborne / Melbourne / London / /
Company
Sudbury / Rio Tuba Nickel Mining Corp. / Iscor Ltd. / Jinchuan Non-Ferrous Metals Corp. / Glencore International AG / General Nickel Co. S.A. / Comet Resources Ltd. / Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines Ltd. / WMC Ltd. / CDC Financial Services (Mauritius) Ltd. / Yuzhuralnickel Joint Stock Co. / Outokumpu Oyj / S.P.R.L. / Reuters Ltd. / Minières / BCL Ltd. / First Quantum Minerals Ltd. / Metorex Ltd. / Ridgepointe Overseas Developments Ltd. / Nicomet Industries Ltd. / Heinz H. Pariser & Co. / East Asia Gold Corp. / Outokumpu Australia Pty. Ltd. / Gorham/Intertech Consulting / Canmine Resources Corp. / International Panorama Resource Corp. / Colossal Resources Corp. / Anglo American plc / Noranda Mining Inc. / Sumitomo Metal Mining Co. Ltd. / Inco Ltd. / Orogen Minerals Ltd. / Argosy Minerals Inc. / Uraltransgaz / Blackbird Metals Inc. / Sunshine Precious Metals Inc. / Tenke Mining Corp. / Formation Capital Corp. / KMT Sarl / Falconbridge Ltd. / Mopani Copper Mines plc / Kokkola Chemicals Oy / Moa Nickel S.A. / USX Corp. / Impala Platinum Holdings Ltd. / Chambishi Metals plc / Société des Mines / International Finance Corp. / Central Mining Group Corp. / Crew Development Corp. / Roan Antelope Mining Corp. / Geominera S.A. / Conic Metals Ltd. / Sherritt International Corp. / The Broken Hill Proprietary Co. Ltd. / Rustenburg Base Metal Refiners Pty. Ltd. / Union Minière Inc. / Bulong Operations Pty Ltd. / Exploration Ltd. / Roskill Information Services Ltd. / Anglovaal Mining Ltd. / America Mineral Fields Inc. / Billiton plc / Black Range Minerals Ltd. / Philnico Developments Ltd. / PolyMet Mining Corp. / Osram Sylvania Inc. / Mines / Centaur Mining & Exploration Ltd. / ZCCM (SmelterCo) Ltd. / Sandvik Asia Ltd. / OM Group Inc. / Weda Bay Minerals Inc. / Congo Mineral Development Ltd. / Melkior Resources Inc. / Ganzhou Cobalt & Tungsten Co. Ltd. / U.S. Cobalt Inc. / QNI Pty. Ltd. / Banff Resources Ltd. / Eramet Group / Stillwater Mining Co. / Cited America Mineral Fields Inc. / Ashok D.D. / Impala Platinum Ltd. / Metal Bulletin / Anaconda Nickel Ltd. / Highlands Pacific Ltd. / Rubamin Ltd. / Moroccan Co / La Générale des Carrières / Ufaleynickel Joint Stock Co. / Union Mineral Concentrators Pty. / Doe Run Co. / Metallurgical Co. / BHP Ltd. / Copperbelt Energy Corp. / Le NickelSLN / International Curator Resources Ltd. / Preston Resources Ltd. / Interfax / Zambia Copper Investments Ltd. / Agnico-Eagle Mines Ltd. / Konkola Copper Mines plc / Brussels N.V. Union / Yuzhpolimetall / /
Continent
Africa / Asia / Europe / North America / /
Country
Norway / Brazil / United Kingdom / China / Finland / Mexico / Congo / Malaysia / Morocco / Argentina / Papua New Guinea / Netherlands / South Africa / Cuba / France / Japan / Uganda / Canada / Australia / Botswana / Philippines / New Caledonia / India / Germany / Zambia / Sweden / Indonesia / Belgium / Russia / United States / South Korea / /
cobalt metal / excess cobalt metal / chemical industries / marketable product / nickel products / downstream products / salable metal / lower energy / nickel metal / platinum-group metal mines / chemical uses / bank / project infrastructure / Internet sales / underground mining / ore processing / gas debts / chemicals / magnetic recording media / gas turbine engines / acid leaching technology / toll-processing cobalt / cobalt metal powders / marketable products / platinum mining / diverse industrial and military applications / cobalt chemical uses / dozen small cobalt chemical processors / cobalt metal powder / gas / cobalt processing plant / past mining operations / owned subsidiary / Internet web site / wrought metal / metal / cobalt product / metal powders / cobalt chemicals / chemical exports / metal-consuming / metal powder / nickel mining / intermediate product / diamond tools / chemical and metal powder production / nonferrous metal production / intermediate products / cobalt processors / mining / /
NaturalFeature
Big Hill / Halmahera Island / Mount Margaret / mountain Margaret / mountain Murchinson / Kola Peninsula / Orenburg / Palawan Island / Ural Mountains / Moa Bay / Mount Keith / Mindoro Island / Nonoc Island / Gag Island / /
Organization
U.S. Minerals Management Service / Government of the Republic of Zambia / Provincial Government / Central Intelligence Agency / Cobalt Development Institute / Ministry of Mines / Government of Congo / French Government / U.S. Government / U.S. Department of Defense / Defense National Stockpile Center / Mineral Economics Directorate / Government of New Caledonia / Federal Government / /
Person
Linder Roberts / Glenn J. Wallace / Mugabe / P.T. Aneka Tambang / George Forrest / /
Position
major lead producer / President / statistical assistant / Director / CFO / /
Product
Voisey / Harjavalta / Hill / July / Hill Proprietary Co. Ltd. press release / Hill Proprietary Co. Ltd. / /
ProvinceOrState
Quebec / Maine / British Columbia / Mpumalanga Province / Utah / Jiangxi Province / Montana / Ehime Prefecture / Colorado / Idaho / Northern Territory / Ontario / Surigao del Norte / Alberta / Queensland / Newfoundland / Manitoba / Pennsylvania / New South Wales / Minnesota / Gauteng Province / New York / Missouri / Camaguey Province / Gansu Province / Western Australia / Lemhi County / Florida / North Carolina / /
PublishedMedium
the Philippines /
Region
southeastern Manitoba / Western Australia / northeastern Minnesota / East Asia / southwestern Uganda / east coast of New Caledonia / South Wales / southwestern Ontario / southern New Caledonia / western New South Wales / /
COBALT By Kim B. Shedd Domestic survey data and tables were prepared by Jo-Ann S. Sterling, statistical assistant, and the world production tables were prepared by Linder Roberts and Glenn J. Wallace, international data