Olen / West Perth / Jinchang / Cobalt / Marquette / Casablanca / Wickliffe / Lubumbashi / Toronto / Roodepoort / Vienna / Guildford / Halifax / Laurinburg / Guangzhou / Kinshasa / Berlin / Vadodara / Brussels / Townsville / Mississauga / Pelham / Paris / Towanda / Negaunee / Salt Lake City / St. George / Vancouver / Sandouville / Subic / Cleveland / Mumbai / Rustenburg / Shanghai / Johannesburg / Antananarivo / Perth / Shangri-La / Pretoria / New York / Thompson / Cheonan / Hamilton / Brazzaville / Scottsdale / Rapport / Port Colborne / Port Moresby / London / /
Company
Sudbury / Rio Tuba Nickel Mining Corp. / Phelps Dodge Exploration Corp. / Glencore International AG / General Nickel Co. S.A. / Dynatec Corp. / Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines Ltd. / Kennecott Exploration Co. / Tati Nickel Mining Co. / J&W Holdings AG / Sterlite Industries Ltd. / Reuters Ltd. / Gécamines / BCL Ltd. / First Quantum Minerals Ltd. / Equinox Resources Ltd. / Metorex Ltd. / Kababankola Mining Co. S.P.R.L. / Nicomet Industries Ltd. / European Nickel PLC / Canmine Resources Corp. / Anglo American plc / Global Nickel Inc. / United States Mineral Resources / BHP Billiton Ltd. / Sumitomo Metal Mining Co. Ltd. / Cawse / Inco Ltd. / Nissho Iwai Corp. / Empresa / Tenke Mining Corp. / Formation Capital Corp. / Falconbridge Ltd. / Mopani Copper Mines Plc / Barclays Bank plc / Mines’ (Gécamines) Central Group / Moa Nickel S.A. / Kokkola Chemicals Oy / WMC Resources Ltd. / Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. / Kumba Resources Ltd. / PacRim Resources Ltd. / Chambishi Metals plc / Le Nickel / Terril de Lubumbashi / Jinchuan Co. / Phelps Dodge Corp. / Angloval Mining Ltd. / Caledonia Mining Corp. / Sally Malay Mining Ltd. / The Hall Chemical Company / Roan Antelope Mining Corp. / Conic Metals Ltd. / Sherritt International Corp. / Mitsui & Co. Ltd. / MFC Bancorp Ltd. / Vedanta Resources PLC / Roskill Information Services Ltd. / Interfax International Ltd. / China Minmetals Corp. / Anglovaal Mining Ltd. / America Mineral Fields Inc. / Rosebank / PolyMet Mining Corp. / Osram Sylvania Inc. / LionOre International Ltd. / OM Group Inc. / Preminco Ltd. / Ganzhou Cobalt & Tungsten Co. Ltd. / QNI Pty. Ltd. / Rio Narcea Gold Mines Ltd. / Minara Resources Ltd. / Banff Resources Ltd. / Eramet Group / Stillwater Mining Co. / LionOre Mining International Ltd. / ZCCM Investments Holdings plc / S.A. Groupe George Forrest / Impala Platinum Ltd. / Met-Chem Technology Inc. / Metal Bulletin / Anaconda Nickel Ltd. / Rubamin Ltd. / Umicore South Africa Pty. / Southbank / Jinchuan Group Ltd. / Mining Journal Ltd / Geovic Cameroon S.A. / Congo Mineral Developments Ltd. / Coral Bay Nickel Corp. / Preston Resources Ltd. / Tremalt Ltd. / Kingamyambo Musonoi Tailings S.A.R.L. / Unión Geológica Minera S.A. / Zambia Copper Investments Ltd. / Kennecott Minerals Co. / Konkola Copper Mines PLC / Société / J&W Holdings / /
Continent
Africa / /
Country
Norway / Brazil / United Kingdom / China / British Virgin Islands / Finland / Congo / Morocco / Madagascar / Papua New Guinea / Spain / Switzerland / Macedonia / South Africa / Cuba / Bermuda / France / Japan / Uganda / Canada / Australia / Botswana / Philippines / New Caledonia / India / Cameroon / Germany / Zambia / Indonesia / Belgium / Turkey / Russia / Austria / United States / South Korea / Greece / Ireland / /
Currency
USD / /
Event
Business Partnership / Bankruptcy / FDA Phase / Company Expansion / Force Majeure / M&A / Funding / Conference Call / Reorganization / Name Change / Labor Issues / Debt Financing / /
Facility
Cawse plant / Cobalt Development Institute / WMC’s Kalgoorlie smelter / Fort Saskatchewan refinery / Sudbury smelter / Fort Belvoir / Big Hill smelter / Kamoto Mine / Konkola Mine / Maggie Hays Mine / Phoenix Mine / Mopani’s Nkana Mine / Umicore’s plant / Cliffs Erie mill / Hall Chemical Company’s Wickliffe / Duluth Complex / Apex plant / Coral Bay Nickel plant / Raglan Mine / Port Colborne / LionOre’s Emily Ann Mine / Stillwater Complex / Luiswishi Mine / Chemaf S.P.R.L. plant / The plant / SLN’s Doniambo smelter / COSAC smelter / Fort Saskatchewan / /
IndustryTerm
portable electronic devices / cobalt metal / acid leaching-solvent extraction processing facility / Internet References Cited BHP / hydrometallurgical processing technology / chemical industries / owned specialty chemicals / produced specialty cobalt products / physical and chemical properties / platinum-group metal mines / chemical uses / metal recoveries / cobalt oxide product / media releases / chemicals / magnetic recording media / gas turbine engines / acid leaching technology / nickel-cobalt intermediate product / cobalt metal powders / copper-cobalt / diverse industrial and military applications / cobalt chemical uses / nickel chemicals / cobalt metal powder / mixed nickel-cobalt sulfide intermediate product / merchant banking / cobalt specialty products / by-product / wrought metal / metal / cobalt product / metal powders / cobalt chemicals / chemical exports / metal-consuming / metal powder / hydrometallurgical processing / online methods / hydrometallurgical processing technologies / diamond tools / chemical and metal powder production / ore-processing facility / intermediate products / cobalt processors / hydrometallurgical technology / mining / ore-processing plant / Internet References Cited section / /
NaturalFeature
Big Hill / Kola Peninsula / Highlands Pacific Ltd. / Palawan Island / Ural Mountains / Moa Bay / Highlands Pacific / /
Organization
Defense Logistics Agency / U.S. Bureau / Central Intelligence Agency / Cobalt Development Institute / Government of Congo / U.S. Department of Defense / Defense National Stockpile Center / Government of Cameroon / Mineral Economics Directorate / Papua New Guinea Department of Mining / Securities and Exchange Commission / Congress / U.S. Trade and Development Agency / Papua New Guinea Government / /
Person
Linder Roberts / P.T. Aneka Tambang / /
Position
leading cobalt producer / nancial advisor / statistical assistant / international data coordinator / /
Product
Maskwa / Goro / /
ProvinceOrState
Madang Province / Ohio / Quebec / British Columbia / Est Province / Mpumalanga Province / Utah / Jiangxi Province / Montana / Nova Scotia / Ehime Prefecture / Arizona / Ontario / Alberta / Queensland / Manitoba / Pennsylvania / Minnesota / Gauteng Province / New York / Michigan / Missouri / Camaguey Province / New Foundland and Labrador / Holguin Province / Gansu Province / North-Western Province / Western Australia / Lemhi County / North Carolina / /
PublishedMedium
The Eagle / the Philippines (Metal Bulletin / The Platts annual / /
Region
central China / Western Australia / northeastern Minnesota / southern Montana / southwestern Uganda / southwestern Spain / southern New Caledonia / western Turkey / South Africa / northern Zambia / /
Technology
pdf / six cobalt processors / carbonation / hydrometallurgical processing technologies / hydrometallurgical processing technology / cobalt processors / Two processors / hydrometallurgical technology / acid leaching technology / /
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