Cincinnati / Boca Raton / Gorham / Cobalt Industry Restructuring / Lubumbashi / Toronto / Guildford / Sandouville-LeHavre / Middletown / Denver / Braithwaithe / Freeport / Brisbane / Fredericktown / Widnes / Lubin / Laurinburg / Kinshasa / North Cobalt / Townsville / Moscow / Montreal / Pelham / Tokyo / Mirecourt / Towanda / Pittsburgh / St. George / Espoo / Columbus / Vancouver / Cleveland / Johannesburg / Perth / Fort Saskatchewan / Pretoria / Thompson / Port Colborne / Melbourne / London / /
Company
Sudbury / Iscor Ltd. / Spectron Group press / Glencore International AG / General Nickel Co. S.A. / OMG Apex Inc. / Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines Ltd. / WMC Ltd. / Yuzhuralnickel Joint Stock Co. / Outokumpu Oyj / S.P.R.L. / Reuters Ltd. / The Cobalt Refinery Co. / Minières / BCL Ltd. / South Africa Ltd. / First Quantum Minerals Ltd. / Metorex Ltd. / Ridgepointe Overseas Developments Ltd. / The Cobalt Refinery Co. Inc. / East Asia Gold Corp. / Outokumpu Australia Pty. Ltd. / Anschutz Mining Corp. / Gorham/Intertech Consulting / Canmine Resources Corp. / International Panorama Resource Corp. / Anglo American Plc / United States Mineral Resources / Sumitomo Metal Mining Co. Ltd. / Inco Ltd. / Orogen Minerals Ltd. / Argosy Minerals Inc. / J.B. Were & Son Ltd. / Tenke Mining Corp. / Formation Capital Corp. / KMT S.A.R.L. / Falconbridge Ltd. / Mopani Copper Mines Plc / Norilsk Nickel Joint Stock Co. / Gulf Chemical & Metallurgical Corp. / Moa Nickel S.A. / Kokkola Chemicals Oy / USX Corp. / Chambishi Metals Plc / Anglo American Corp. / Société des Mines / International Finance Corp. / Central Mining Group Corp. / Crew Development Corp. / Roan Antelope Mining Corp. / Calliope Metals Corp. / Geominera S.A. / Sherritt International Corp. / Rustenburg Base Metal Refiners Pty. Ltd. / Gécamines Central Group / Union Minière Inc. / Bulong Operations Pty Ltd. / Industrial Corp. / Commonwealth Development Corp. / Comet Resources NL / Roskill Information Services Ltd. / Interfax International Ltd. / Ramu / Anglovaal Mining Ltd. / America Mineral Fields Inc. / Billiton Plc / Argosy Mining Corp. / PolyMet Mining Corp. / Osram Sylvania Inc. / Broken Hill Proprietary Co. Ltd. / Heron Resources NL / Centaur Mining & Exploration Ltd. / EGMF / OM Group Inc. / Weda Bay Minerals Inc. / Melkior Resources Inc. / QNI Ltd. / U.S. Cobalt Inc. / QNI Pty. Ltd. / Banff Resources Ltd. / Stillwater Mining Co. / Outokumpu Harjavalta Metals Oy / Cobatec Inc. / Impala Platinum Ltd. / Anaconda Nickel Ltd. / Commercial Caribbean Nickel S.A. / Highlands Pacific Ltd. / CRI International Inc. / Consolidated Mango Resources Ltd. / Ufaleynickel Joint Stock Co. / KGHM Polska Miedz S.A. / Spectron Group / Union Mineral Concentrators Pty. / Nord Pacific Ltd. / Congo Mineral Developments Ltd. / International Curator Resources Ltd. / Preston Resources Ltd. / Cyprus Amax Minerals Co. / Zambia Copper Investments Ltd. / Binani Industries Ltd. / Konkola Copper Mines Plc / The Shepherd Chemical Co. / /
Continent
Africa / Asia / North America / /
Country
Norway / Brazil / United Kingdom / China / Finland / Mexico / Congo / Morocco / Papua New Guinea / Netherlands / South Africa / Cuba / France / Japan / Uganda / Canada / Australia / Botswana / Philippines / New Caledonia / India / Germany / Zambia / Albania / Sweden / Poland / Indonesia / Belgium / Russia / United States / Singapore / /
Currency
USD / GBP / /
Event
M&A / Business Partnership / Product Issues / Reorganization / Product Release / Earnings Announcement / Second Stock Issuance / Company Expansion / Bankruptcy / /
metal powder briquettes / chemical plants / chemical industries / steel works / nickel metal / copper rolled products / energy / chemical uses / metallurgical processing / energy broker / chemicals / magnetic recording media / acid leaching technology / low cost producer / laterite project site / marketable products / platinum mining / identified mining methods / power tools / nickel metal powder briquettes / past mining operations / ceased mining / wrought metal / metal / sulfate solution / metal powders / end-use products / chemical exports / sulfide product / paint driers / manufacturing defect / metal powder / gas turbine aircraft engines / solvent extraction-electrowinning technology / intermediate product / diamond tools / chemical and metal powder production / nonferrous metal production / intermediate products / mining / Internet trading system / /
NaturalFeature
Halmahera Island / Mount Margaret / Kola Peninsula / Taimyr Peninsula / Ramu River / Ural Mountains / Moa Bay / Mount Keith / Nonoc Island / Werner Lake / Gag Island / /
Organization
Defense Logistics Agency / U.S. Minerals Management Service / U.S. Bureau / Government of the Republic of Zambia / Provincial Government / Central Intelligence Agency / Cobalt Development Institute / Government of Congo / Government of Côte d’Ivoire / French Government / U.S. Government / U.S. Department of Defense / Defense National Stockpile Center / Securities and Exchange Commission / Congress / EPC / /
Person
Linder Roberts / P.T. Aneka Tambang / Sodimico / George Forrest / /
Position
producer / low cost producer / energy broker / President / statistical assistant / international data coordinator / /
Product
Voisey / Chibuluma South / Hill Proprietary Co. Ltd. news release / December / Hill Proprietary Co. Ltd. / /
ProvinceOrState
Ohio / Quebec / Maine / Louisiana / British Columbia / Mpumalanga Province / Utah / Jiangxi Province / Montana / Ehime Prefecture / Colorado / Northern Territory / Ontario / Surigao del Norte / Alberta / Texas / Queensland / Newfoundland / Manitoba / Pennsylvania / New South Wales / Minnesota / New York / Missouri / Camaguey Province / Gansu Province / Western Australia / Lemhi County / Oregon / Florida / Holguín Province / North Carolina / /
RadioStation
WMC / /
Region
southeastern Manitoba / Western Australia / northeastern Minnesota / southern Montana / East Asia / southwestern Uganda / east coast of New Caledonia / South Wales / southwestern Ontario / southern New Caledonia / South Africa / /
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, international data coordinator. Cobalt i