Likasi / West Perth / Cobalt / Wickliffe / Lubumbashi / Toronto / Guildford / Denver / Fredericktown / Laurinburg / Sydney / Kinshasa / Vadodara / Adelaide / Brussels / Townsville / Moscow / Lusaka / Montreal / Paris / Towanda / Salt Lake City / Vancouver / Sandouville / Cleveland / Mumbai / Shanghai / Johannesburg / Perth / Fort Saskatchewan / New York / Thompson / Port Colborne / London / /
Company
Sudbury / Congo Stars Mining SARL / Rio Tuba Nickel Mining Corp. / Empresa Cubana Exportadora / Iscor Ltd. / Jinchuan Nonferrous Metals Corp. / Jinchuan Non-Ferrous Metals Corp. / General Nickel Co. S.A. / Comet Resources Ltd. / Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines Ltd. / WMC Ltd. / MMC Norilsk Nickel / Teck Cominco Ltd. / Yuzhuralnickel Joint Stock Co. / Reuters Ltd. / Gécamines / Minières / BCL Ltd. / First Quantum Minerals Ltd. / Antam / Metorex Ltd. / Nicomet Industries Ltd. / Canmine Resources Corp. / Anglo American plc / Noranda Mining Inc. / Sumitomo Metal Mining Co. Ltd. / Cawse / Inco Ltd. / Nissho Iwai Corp. / Orogen Minerals Ltd. / Cominco Engineering Services Ltd. / BHP World Exploration Inc. / Argosy Minerals Inc. / Blackbird Metals Inc. / Sunshine Precious Metals Inc. / Tenke Mining Corp. / Formation Capital Corp. / Falconbridge Ltd. / Mopani Copper Mines Plc / BHP Billiton / Kokkola Chemicals Oy / Moa Nickel S.A. / Kumba Resources Ltd. / Impala Platinum Holdings Ltd. / Chambishi Metals plc / Le Nickel / Société des Mines / CDC Group plc / Terril de Lubumbashi / Glencore / Gold City Industries Ltd. / International Finance Corp. / Phelps Dodge Corp. / The Hall Chemical Co. / Costamin International Joint Venture / Crew Development Corp. / ID. Formation Capital / Roan Antelope Mining Corp. / Conic Metals Ltd. / Sherritt International Corp. / Ausmelt Ltd. / Rustenburg Base Metal Refiners Pty. Ltd. / Mitsui & Co. Ltd. / Bulong Operations Pty. Ltd. / Exploration Ltd. / Goldman Resources Inc. / Roskill Information Services Ltd. / Anglovaal Mining Ltd. / America Mineral Fields Inc. / Black Range Minerals Ltd. / Philnico Developments Ltd. / PolyMet Mining Corp. / Osram Sylvania Inc. / Centaur Mining & Exploration Ltd. / Sandvik Asia Ltd. / OM Group Inc. / Weda Bay Minerals Inc. / Cominco American Inc. / Congo Mineral Development Ltd. / Melkior Resources Inc. / State of Minnesota / Ganzhou Cobalt & Tungsten Co. Ltd. / U.S. Cobalt Inc. / QNI Pty. Ltd. / Banff Resources Ltd. / Eramet Group / Stillwater Mining Co. / Cominco Ltd. / Doe Run Corp. / ZCCM Investments Holdings PLC / S.A. Groupe George Forrest / Impala Platinum Ltd. / Metal Bulletin / Anaconda Nickel Ltd. / Highlands Pacific Ltd. / The Times / Rubamin Ltd. / Umicore South Africa Pty. / Normandy Mining Ltd. / Ufaleynickel Joint Stock Co. / Kababankola Mining Co. / Longyear Mesaba Corp. / Preston Resources Ltd. / Interfax / Tremalt Ltd. / Le Société / Zambia Copper Investments Ltd. / Agnico-Eagle Mines Ltd. / Konkola Copper Mines PLC / /
Continent
Africa / Asia / Europe / /
Country
Norway / Brazil / United Kingdom / China / British Virgin Islands / Finland / Congo / Morocco / Papua New Guinea / Netherlands / South Africa / Cuba / France / Japan / Uganda / Canada / Australia / Botswana / Philippines / New Caledonia / India / Taiwan / Germany / Zambia / Sweden / Indonesia / Belgium / Russia / United States / South Korea / /
Currency
USD / cent / GBP / /
Event
Business Partnership / Person Communication and Meetings / Bankruptcy / M&A / Funding / Force Majeure / Earnings Announcement / Name Change / Reorganization / Debt Financing / Labor Issues / /
cobalt products / cobalt metal / chemical industries / nickel metal / platinum-group metal mines / chemical uses / past mining / underground mining / chemicals / magnetic recording media / open pit mining / gas turbine engines / acid leaching technology / cobalt chemical processor / metal powder plant / cobalt metal powders / nickel-cobalt producer / platinum mining / diverse industrial and military applications / cobalt chemical uses / dozen small cobalt chemical processors / cobalt metal powder / mixed nickel-cobalt sulfide intermediate product / cobalt metal settlement price / metal chemicals activity / pressure leaching technology / Internet web site / separate underground mining operations / pit mining / wrought metal / manganese metal / metal / cobalt product / metal powders / grade metal / cobalt chemicals / cellular telephone market / electronics sector / metal production levels / chemical exports / metal-consuming / guarantee covering processing / metal powder / energy crisis / grade lead metal / hydrometallurgical processing / purity cobalt product / integrated mining / intermediate product / refined cobalt metal / diamond tools / chemical and metal powder production / chemical industry / chemical processing capabilities / intermediate products / cobalt processors / hydrometallurgical technology / mining / Internet References Cited section / /
NaturalFeature
Big Hill / Halmahera Island / Mount Margaret / Kola Peninsula / Palawan Island / Ural Mountains / Moa Bay / highland Pacific Ltd. / Mt. Margaret / Gag Island / /
Organization
U.S. Minerals Management Service / Government of the Republic of Zambia / Provincial Government / Central Intelligence Agency / Cobalt Development Institute / Labrador Inuit Association / State Government / Government of Congo / Government of Newfoundland and Labrador / French Government / U.S. Department of Defense / Defense National Stockpile Center / U.S. Department of Agriculture / Forest Service / /
general economic conditions / nickel-cobalt producer / statistical assistant / international data coordinator / /
ProvinceOrState
Ohio / Quebec / British Columbia / Mpumalanga Province / Utah / Jiangxi Province / Montana / Ehime Prefecture / Colorado / Northern Territory / Ontario / Alberta / Queensland / Newfoundland / Manitoba / Pennsylvania / New South Wales / Minnesota / Alabama / Gauteng Province / Missouri / Gansu Province / Western Australia / Lemhi County / North Carolina / /
PublishedMedium
The Times of Zambia / The Financial Gazette / the Philippines (Metal Bulletin / /
Region
southeastern Manitoba / central China / Western Australia / northeastern Minnesota / southwestern Uganda / east coast of New Caledonia / South Wales / southwestern Ontario / southern New Caledonia / South Africa / /
Technology
pressure leaching technology / cobalt chemical processors / seven cobalt processors / cobalt processors / Two processors / cellular telephone / cobalt chemical processor / 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