PA FeCb Shieldalloy Metallurgical Corp. / Kennametals Inc. / FeCb Thai Tantalum Inc. / Reading Alloys Inc. / Cabot Corporation / Shieldalloy Meta llurgical Corporation / N RC Inc . / ICF Incorporated / Teledyne / S tark Inc. / /
Country
France / United States / /
Event
Environmental Issue / /
IndustryTerm
considered processing opera tions / ic acid solution / crude metal / chemical form / mineral processing operation / chemical change / tantalum metal-containing ma / reduced metal / cru de metal / metal oxides / physical and chemical structure / metal oxide / metal solution / metal powder / chemical comp osition / mineral processing waste / mineral processing wastes / combu stion equipment / fluotantalic acid solution / al processing opera tions / metal / tantalum solution / chemical reactions / electricity / mineral processing waste streams / pure tantalum metal / molten metal / Mineral processing operations / columbium metal / chemical changes / metal carbide / tantalum and columbium products / beneficiation/processing line / electronics industry / transportation applic ations / mining / dom estic mining / pentoxide/metal / considered processing operations / steel / /
NaturalFeature
ste streams / /
Organization
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency / Newly Identified Mineral Processing Waste Characterization Data Set / U.S. Bureau / Op. / US Federal Reserve / office of Water Regulations and Standards / Development Document for Effluent Limitations Guidelines and Standards for the Nonferrous Metals Manufacturing Point Source Category / office of Solid Waste / /
Person
AL U M P ROCESS / Chuck Knoll / /
Position
extractor / Miner / actor / /
Product
Potassium chloride / sodium chloride / /
Technology
Environmental Engineering / dom / pollution control / /
TANTALUM, COLUMBIUM, AND FERROCOLUMBIUM A. Commodity Summary Tantalum is use d in the electronics industry, as well as in ae rospace and transportation applic ations.