Olen / Portland / Williston / Toronto / Vienna / Sandouville-LeHavre / Harjavalta / Freeport / Laurinburg / Essex / Townsville / Lusaka / Braithwaite / Towanda / Vancouver / Perth / Fort Saskatchewan / Thompson / Port Colborne / Cloncurry / London / /
Company
Sudbury / OM Group's Kokkola Chemicals Oy / Western Platinum Ltd. / Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines Ltd. / Qasim Mining Enterprises Ltd. / BCL Ltd. / The Cobalt Refinery Company Inc. / Outokumpu Australia Pty. Ltd. / Gorham/Intertech Consulting / Colossal Resources Corp. / AMAX Metals Recovery Inc. / Sumitomo Metal Mining Co. Ltd. / Inco Ltd. / The International Cobalt Company Inc. / Falconbridge Ltd. / Kokkola Chemicals Oy / Moa Nickel S.A. / Severonickel / Hitachi Metals Europe GmbH / Sherritt Inc. / Canada NewsWire / Rustenburg Base Metal Refiners Pty. Ltd. / Kasese Cobalt Co. Ltd. / Metallurgical Corp. / Roskill Information Services Ltd. / Resolute Resources Ltd. / Osram Sylvania Inc. / Kilembe Mines Ltd. / Western Mining Corp. / OM Group Inc. / Nippon Mining Co. Ltd. / QNI Ltd. / La Source / MIM Holdings Ltd. / Savage Resources Ltd. / La Compania General de Niquel S.A. / Impala Platinum Ltd. / Commercial Caribbean Nickel S.A. / Outokumpu Oy / Ego Resources Ltd. / International Curator Resources Ltd. / Union Minière S.A. / Cobatec Ltd. / COBALT 1 / /
Country
Nippon / Norway / Brazil / United Kingdom / China / Finland / Mexico / Soviet Union / Morocco / Netherlands / South Africa / Cuba / France / Japan / Uganda / Canada / Australia / Tanzania / Botswana / New Caledonia / India / Germany / Zambia / Sweden / Indonesia / Belgium / Russia / United States / /
Currency
USD / GBP / /
Event
Business Partnership / M&A / /
Facility
Harjavalta refinery / Cobalt Development Institute / Kokkola Chemicals Oy refinery / Société Métallurgique Le Nickel's Doniambo smelter / Fort Saskatchewan refinery / Moa Bay plant / e/ Refinery / Sudbury smelter / Kamoto Mine / Forrestania Mine / Falconbridge Nikkelverk refinery / Production Mine / Kwinana refinery / Monchegorsk refinery / ErametSLN's refinery / Port Colborne / Mount Isa Mine / OM Group's Kokkola refinery / OM Group's Kokkola Chemicals Oy refinery / Outokumpu's Harjavalta refinery / WMC's Kalgoorlie smelter / Niihama Nickel Refinery / Brolga Mine / Falconbridge's Nikkelverk refinery / /
IndustryTerm
finished metal / alloy steel / chemical industries / member producers / chemical uses / plastics / chemical processing / metal tools / chemicals / magnetic recording media / mill products / lower quality metal / paint / diverse industrial and military applications / refined metal / metal cutting / steel producers / oil and gas / pit mining / wrought metal / metal / metal powders / end-use products / imported primary metal / chemical exports / land-based industrial gas turbines / paint driers / metal refining / research subsidiary / metal powder / nickel mining / historic silver mining town / metal powder acts / feed materials supplier / diamond tools / chemical and metal powder production / intermediate products / mining / /
NaturalFeature
Kola Peninsula / Ural Mountains / Moa Bay / Mount Keith / Mount Isa / /
OperatingSystem
Poseidon / /
Organization
Defense Logistics Agency / Bureau of the Census / U.S. Bureau / Ministry of International Trade and Industry / South Africa's Minerals Bureau / Cobalt Development Institute / U.S. International Trade Commission / International Trade Commission / U.S. Department of Defense / Cuban government / Congress / /
Maine / Shanxi Province / Louisiana / British Columbia / Jiangxi Province / Ibaraki Prefecture / Ehime Prefecture / Ontario / Alberta / Queensland / Manitoba / Pennsylvania / Virginia / North Dakota / Gansu Province / Western Australia / Holguín Province / North Carolina / Shandong Province / /
Region
Western Australia / eastern Ontario / southern New Caledonia / former Soviet Union / Western Pacific Rim / South Africa / /
Technology
bioleaching / cobalt processors / Two processors / /
COBALT By Kim B. Shedd Cobalt is a strategic and critical metal used in many diverse industrial and military applications. The largest use of cobalt is in superalloys, which are alloys designed to resist