cobalt ore

Germany is the in front of super battery for the electric car

2011-11-21T01:37:00.001-08:00

November 20Elektroauto, lithium ion, News (20/11/2011)

The electric car is suffering from the reputation that the range
should not be very high. With most electric vehicles you can drive
about 140 kilometers, the range will vary depending on the model, from
then on various factors like the size of the battery, the outside
temperature and your own driving behavior.

Scientist Hannemann with KOLIBRI technology, these batteries can be
einegsetzt in electric cars. Source: DBM Energy GmbH

Many people who want to buy an electric car expect a range beyond 200
kilometers.
Batteries that can drive an electric car over 200 miles. The startup
company DBM finds himself with his new super battery is already at the
destination.

DBM has been experimenting in his laboratory, many battery cells which
is where most of the battery cells, it is I to cells with lithium ion
technology, in this cell type is it is a huge kit with a variety of
possible material combinations.
Thus, elements such as lithium, nickel, cobalt, manganese and many
metals and materials are used, the goal is always the same: It will be
the storage capacity of electrochemical energy increased in
rechargeable battery cells, the greater distances to reach for
electric cars.

Finally, the Berlin-based company DBM with a lithium metal polymer
battery had on board a nonstop trip from Munich to Berlin made.

Oldenburg was in July of DBM, a field trial for the storage capacity
of the baptized in the name of hummingbird battery started for the
practical test, the kilowatt hours of 99 reduced to 40 kilowatt hours,
as the project operators with a range of around 200 kilometers
appeared adequate.
The electric cars are the hummingbird battery driven since July in the
Weser-Ems region on country roads and highways total 12,166
kilometers, a battery charge enough to cover a range of 230
kilometers.
The company claims the batteries themselves were flat-out driving on
the highway often have 20 to 30 percent of remaining capacity.

The drawback is about 30 percent higher purchase price if the price
has dropped significantly in a few years because the production
processes have become more efficient, this is a good solution for the
electric car.

cobalt steel suppliers

2011-09-01T07:41:00.001-07:00

COMMODITIES
Mining in the 21st Century
Where are our future in metals?
The author studied earth sciences and is a freelance science journalist based in Heidelberg.
Karl Urban
Although funded ores contain less and less valuable metals, the worldwide hunger for them has grown steadily. The mining industry is in a dead end?
It's been rough on the global commodities markets. Exploded in recent years, prices of almost all important industrial metals. For use not only Western countries but also China, India or Brazil are copper, zinc and rare earth elements, without which no industrial country: Copper is essential in electrical engineering, zinc as an alloying agent for stainless steel, rare earth elements for flat panel displays or the generators of wind turbines. Prices are rising but also because important export countries use their own raw materials themselves: last year, announced the Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao, a geologist, studying, only to export rare earth nor under high tariffs.

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Model for the future of the Club of Rome of 1972
The standard scenario of the future model World3 the Club of Rome of 1972: It shows how non-renewable resources such as metals (red line) in the 21 Century are being exploited more and more. Critics complain, however, that technological development in the mining insufficiently eventually applied in the model.
In this raw race get the "limits to growth" of the Club of Rome of 1972, again in sight. In her newly published assessment of 2004 reaffirmed the authors, metal ores that could be similar to the fossil fuels soon completely exhausted. Especially the industrial and emerging countries would have consumed at a rapid pace of natural crude ores, which are covered by a finite number of deposits - until it no longer would continue.

Andreas Feininger / Library of Congress
Conventional mining today
If and when the metal support reaches a limit, most mining experts dare not predict. Too strong is the influence of a rising price has the technical development. For each efficient mining method increases the recoverable amount of raw material: "There are technological bridges that need to be built - and therefore to suggest there is no reason that we will soon have no mineral resources more available," says about Jens Gutzmer, Professor of Economic Geology and Petrology at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg.

Ultimately caused technical innovations have always been in the past, and falling metal prices. Just the search for new ore deposits is now much more focused than a few decades ago. Miners have always had only such deposits pursued in depth, these contained usable ore at the surface and promised such easy access. Geophysical measurements allow it today, however, even deep under the ground to detect lying deposits. For electrical or magnetic properties of the subsurface can be measured. At these ore bodies often differ greatly from what provides the first evidence for deposits. Elaborate holes must then were left with the measured data of the geophysicist and the Abbauwürdigkeit harden the wire.

The latest tools for prospector are satellites that now not only can detect mineralogical characteristics of the earth's surface. By ever more precise measurements of Earth's gravity, they can locate precisely the gravitational variations. Ore bodies often have a greater density than the surrounding rock. For several years, provided the German-American GRACE Satellitenduo and the European earth observation satellite GOCE those tasks that are also in search of raw materials.

It could not be sustained

Therefore, geologists will continue despite the growing demand for many mineral deposits, but they have a problem: they contain less and less valuable metals. The Australian geologist Gavin Mudd calculated 2007 that its metal content has decreased dramatically over the last 100 years. During the 1880s, for example, contained 30 percent lead single ore body, there are now barely three percent. Also for copper, zinc, silver, gold or uranium itself shows a comparable trend.

Gavin Mudd
Less and less metal in the ore
Since the beginning of the industrial revolution promoted the ores contain less and less metal. This affects many key commodities such as copper, gold, lead, zinc, uranium, nickel or silver.
The new mines so as to build more and more inferior ores from which they still need to create profitable metal. At the same time more and more worthless lands on the adjacent rock dumps: According to the OECD results for each finished metal from the mines in the 20-times the amount of waste - and rising. This requires more energy, because gold, copper or zinc ores milled mostly on a large scale, must be crushed and then melted - anyway, the mining industry, according to calculations by the United Nations is already responsible for 13 percent of global energy consumption.

Once mined, the ore also regenerate only in rare cases and for a long time - as at hydrothermal vents. Therefore can be difficult to integrate the mining industry in the new image of a green, environmentally friendly economy. Truly sustainable in metals could cover only about complete recycling, which is sufficient in raw material consumption is not growing well worldwide. Difficult it was done by the Study Commission of the German Bundestag "Protection of humans and the environment" to define how those resources should be used: preferably no longer than a renewable substitute exists. Until then, it too rich, easy to win the resource productivity, the tenor.

Nibble on ore

"More metal for less money" is therefore the motto of many engineers: X-graders surveyed still underground, the density of each clump of rock and decide whether its grading is sufficient to be promoted. The rest of the rock may remain under the earth and be used to backfill mined tunnels again.

More and more turn from the engineers also speak of the classical methods and their support to the forces of nature: microorganisms. Many species of subterranean rock crushing for billions of years to reach the energy-rich compounds incorporated therein. Some microbes use for their metabolism as the stored sulfur in sulfide ores. It also previously insoluble metal ions are reduced and thus water soluble. From such solutions can finally win a lot easier than metals from hard rock.

Karl Urban
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Microorganisms in raw sulfur
Many microorganisms reduce the rock contained minerals, to reach that occur in the energy-rich elements, such as on this solfataras Iceland. To take advantage of this special metabolism technically, so far, only sulfur-bearing ores are processed.
This so-called bioleaching process has already been tried long ago. Already, a quarter of the copper ore, and every tenth gram gold ore that is processed. In the future, the new microbes and minerals are made more palatable, says Eberhard Janneck, the method for the engineering firm GEOS Freiberg developed. "This has to be changed and tested separately for each ore," he says. "The ore is always a complex of quite different procedures." But in the near future, the range of bioleaching are supplemented with low concentrations of zinc sulphide and lead ores. They also contain indium, which was only by the need for electronic components in recent years to become a valuable industrial metal. "The levels are very low indeed," says Janneck. "But the high market value of the metal to his collection is worth perhaps. Therefore you have to find effective methods to prepare the material and to extract all the other precious metals in the rock."

Metals from water

Further price rises could finally open up new sources of raw materials: the sea water contains about 1000 times the annual world production of gold, but also other metals such as uranium. Especially near the mid-ocean ridges could be sustained as manganese, copper or zinc gain directly from the water, because here gushing black smokers constantly secrete metal-rich solutions.

But still it is cheaper to develop the remaining ore deposits, such as in the deep sea. There worldwide store sludge, sand and erzverkrustete tubers, which are just waiting for an appropriate funding method. The environmental risks of these projects are immense, as manganese, nickel or cobalt often occur only in the uppermost soil layers, which would have to be dredged widely. It is not easy, so far poorly understood deep-sea fauna, not to harm it.

Geologists believe on the basis of such commodities relatively cheap recoverable resources that pass for many years, until the metal world hunger completely sustainable society can be satisfied from alternative sources. All the more amazing is that sustainability is not an invention of the Club of Rome, but already by the Saxon Upper Mountain Captain Hans Carl was invented by Carlo joke. He asked in 1713 to limit the rampant logging, which was necessary for supporting more new galleries. Now it might be time for this requirement to extend our metal hunger.

european commodities are depleting

2010-12-03T08:02:00.000-08:00

Article Pictures (1) Brussels. Anyone who produces, requires commodities. This applies to the industry in the EU as elsewhere. But compared to many other regions of the world, the EU countries only few resources to promote themselves

Explore the buildings of closed buildings and dig through landfills, the Europeans grabbed the gold fever. The investigation is actually for precious metals and rare commodities. Reason: Since China has announced to reduce the export quotas for commodities continues, could lead to a dangerous bottleneck. For high-tech products like cell phones and solar panels can not be without the minerals produced. The EU Commission is therefore on high alert. A common approach is to solve the supply problem. But internal disputes, have been prevented.

Whether cobalt for the production of batteries or germanium for the production of fiberglass cables: Already this spring, EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht warned of a shortage of raw materials. From a total of 41 substances examined, the Belgian attested at 14, a critical supply situation. This addition to the so-called rare earths for LEDs include gallium, indium for screen production and platinum for fuel cells.

For most of the substances, the EU relies on imports from China, Russia, the Congo and Brazil. This is also true for the high-tech location Germany, the mitmischte in the further processing of mineral resources at the front. Announced that Beijing is now the main supplier for re-export restrictions Rare Earth prepares the company cares.

"If we do nothing against the politically induced shortages in key raw materials will break, our value chains," warned Hans-Peter Keitel, Chairman of the Federation of German Industries (BDI). The Federal Government and the EU Commission would have the interest of the viability of the company find a solution, "says Keith.

But that is easier said than done. For EU Industry Commissioner Antonio Tajani brings his paper to a joint EU strategy forward commodity not. In fact, he had already so this month will go to the public. But within the Commission there is dispute about the strategy content. Especially Tajani proposal, the industry with loans and guarantees to support the procurement of commodities, has met with reluctance. Other commissioners as De Gucht, meanwhile pushing on to grant the company more responsibility.

There are also conflicts with the theme of recycling and resource efficiency. Both want to Environment Commissioner Janez Potocnik prominent anchor in the strategy. The Slovene fighting also for the Conservation of Nature Reserves. Their status will turn to sacrifice if necessary, the Trade Commissioner of the raw material degradation.

Because of the discrepancies are expected in Brussels with a publication of the strategy until the new year. One thing is however, already now: Do see the Member States less dependent on imports, they must be more inventive in the search for mineral resources.

Figures of the EU Commission show that the valuable resources put into our everyday objects: How to land 15 percent of global cobalt production, 13 percent of the palladium and 3 percent of annual gold and silver mining in mobile phones and computers.

The search for raw materials, therefore, begins at the landfill. A pilot project is already there: in rice churches in Hesse drill researchers at the University of Giessen in old waste mountains. Where natural resources in the value of 65 to EUR 120 million are suspected. But the value of the hidden metals should be up to EUR 30 million.

Dredging on a large scale

2010-12-03T07:58:00.000-08:00

The extraction of raw materials is now largely automated. Mining companies want to really get away from the hand that makes the work of the miners safer - but ehöht the risk of pollution.

"Good luck comes, the Steiger" Herbert Grönemeyer sings at gigs like the Ruhr, and the whole concert hall with singing. The pot is mine and miners' songs, like the song Steiger still present, although the former is of dozens of coal mines, only a handful in operation. The mining industry will disappear from the precinct. What remains Mining romance and cultural monuments like the Zollverein.

Elsewhere, the material degradation of romantic swan songs away. In 2008, companies promoted worldwide nearly 16 billion tons of raw materials, building materials such as sand and gravel excluded. Most of whom make fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas, the second largest item are iron ore and steek alloying agents such as nickel and cobalt. About half of it is mined in Asia. The amount of the extracted commodities has been increasing for decades in order to meet the growing needs of industrial and emerging countries. This is only possible by ever larger and more powerful machines.

Hoe and shovel are long gone. They were replaced by Drilling, dredging, and explosives. There is a distinction between the machine for the extraction of commodities, ie those that solve such ore or coal from the rock, and machinery for the transport of raw materials. What devices are used depends on several factors: which raw material is broken down, whether above or below ground, in which rock or other surface it appears.

Drilling, blasting and cutting

Do miners such as in underground mining raw materials extracted from hard rock, drill or break them. In softer rock is cut. The yield transport the miners with loaders or similar vehicles, the so-called tipping points. There, the dissolved material is mechanically crushed, placed on a conveyor system and transported to the surface.

Many work in mining operations have become automated or partially automated. Drilling in the computer controls a number of processes, including the delivery device automatically go to the part. "They want to really get away from the hand work," says Oliver Langenfeld, director of the Department for Natural Resources and practice in underground mines at the Institute of Mining of the Technical University of Clausthal.

Another step on the way to mining without manual work currently taking place in the driving loaders to transport the raw materials for tipping: take alternate routes through the mine and can therefore not always been controlled by computer. "But even here there are first signs of automation," said Langenfeld.

Open pit automatic control techniques are more common than in mining. For the devices that come about when brown coal pit mining is used, are often controlled satellite. Under the earth can not use the satellite. Especially as the mines reach deeper into the earth: Miners dig in now up to 5000 meters depth for mineral resources. In order to spare the workers, the high temperatures at that depth, while mining companies can now install the latest technology to their machines and control them as from a more distant perspective.

To receive the data there, but they need a quick and possibility of wireless data transmission. "That does not count for any mining company," says Attila Baki, Head of underground drilling and geotechnical engineering at Atlas Copco MCT, the German distributor of the Swedish construction company Atlas Copco.

With increasing automation will work for miners safer, said Baki. Mine disasters such as recently in Chile today can be avoided. Besides working professionals working to reduce the noise level of the machines and increase their productivity. Another point being researched, is the environment. Many machines for the extraction of raw materials to swallow large quantities of hydraulic oil - pulls a hose around a drilling vehicle can flow before 200 liters of oil in the ground. "Biodegradable oils limit but the life of the equipment," said Baki. Manufacturers are therefore working on machines, the Eco-oil is better tolerated.

Greenpeace: "We must break down at all on fossil fuels"

Such efforts are likely to satisfy opponents of the resource extraction difficult. The show a direct correlation to more fundamental problems that caused the degradation of coal, gold and other commodities. "Disappear by the lignite mining, for example, entire villages," said Christoph von Lieven, energy expert at the environmental group Greenpeace. For brown coal mining in North Rhine-Westphalia Garzweiler around several villages had already been soft, to the anger of its people.

In Canada, in turn, to build this from deserted wilderness in raw materials - but a large area contaminated the environment. In the province of Alberta bound in sand and clay store's second largest oil reserves on earth. In mining, the oil using steam is released. "The process frees heavy metals like mercury, which seeps into the groundwater, a large part," says Lieven. More modern machines can reduce the raw material in his view, make no more environmentally friendly and those responsible would also be expensive. "We must fossil fuel did not abolish", so is the conclusion of the environmentalist.

African Metals Corporation completed Luisha exploration project

2010-12-03T07:55:00.000-08:00

African Metals Corporation completed Luisha South Project's first 8-core drilling and samples sent; holes go weiter03.12.10 | 10:54 clock

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. 2. December 2010. African Metals Corporation (OTCBB: 912 759, TSX Venture Exchange: AFR) reports on the state of the drilling activities on its projects in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

DGAP-News: African Metals Corporation / Keyword (s): Progress report African Metals Corporation completed Luisha South Project's first 8-core drilling and samples sent; holes go

03.12.2010 / 10:54

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. 2. December 2010. African Metals Corporation (OTCBB: 912 759, TSX Venture Exchange: AFR) reports on the state of the drilling activities on its projects in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

RC drilling on the slopes of Luisha South and RC drilling at Luisha South-soil anomalies

Magnum Drilling Sprl completed in October 2010 a 42 hole RC drill program complete (Reverse Circulation, Rückspülbohrungen) on the clearing of the historic mining Luisha from South. The program provided including normal samples for quality control of 418 samples from 383 meters of drilling. Magnum Drilling Sprl completed four holes also an extensive RC drilling program, the south and southwest of the pit copper regional anomalies in the soil examined. The program provided 116 samples from 200 m of drilling? Lich Including the samples for quality control.

All 534 samples were sent for processing and multi-element ICP analysis to the ALS laboratory in Johannesburg, South Africa. Problems of customs control and transit protocols at the borders between Zambia and Zimbabwe and Zimbabwe and South Africa led to the samples at ALS with a two-week delay arrived. The border problems were mainly based on a backlog of trucks that transported blister copper from the DRC.

The samples are now being accelerated in ALS processed and the results are expected mid-December.

Core holes in Luisha South Open Pit

Rubaco Sprl began on 17 October 2010, a 1,000 meters of drilling NQ core drilling program comprehensive. To date, at the pit bottom five holes drilled with a total length of 365.20 meters. The rate of penetration has been hampered by technical problems? Lich Including the lack of Bohrzusatzmitteln, water loss, a single layer over the first three weeks. The drilling crews were not familiar with the lithologies of the copper belt. There have been steps to address these problems. It was holding a core recovery 83-91%.

To accelerate the drilling program was DrillTek Sprl with the core drilling au? OUTSIDE of the mine commissioned during Rubaco brought down the open pit wells planned. DrillTek Sprl began drilling operations on 15 November 2010. To date, they have drilled 3 holes with a total length of 218.80 m and an NQ diameter. The core application was> 95%. DrillTek lost three Bohrtage due to a defective nuclear apparatus. They are working on a 200-m-bore.

Overall, the project core holes drilled with a total length of 584.00 meters.

All wells met resistance to a copper shingle and Carrollitvererzung. According to visual assessment is the chalcopyrite content of between 0.5 and 3%, sometimes at 5%. The closing in the cores observed Vererzungsarten? En both syngenetic (layers of parallel thin lenses are replaced by pyrite and chalcopyrite Carrollite) and epigenetic (in crevices and corridors hosted sulphides) a. The orientation of the cores is needed to determine the trends of the tectonic Gangvererzung. Carrollite is a cobalt sulfide mineral, composed of about 40% cobalt and 20% copper. The remainder is iron, sulfur and small amounts of nickel. Carrollite suitable for bio-leaching (bio-leaching) and weathered to the high grade cobalt mineral heterogeneity. The visual estimates of mineralization can be personalized with the results of the first round to compare the RC drilling which was completed in June 2010. AFR is is confident to produce a geological connection between the holes.

Rubaco still needs about 3 holes (100 meters) down bring anything new short holes on the pit bottom and at the entrance to the mine. DrillTek still has about 6 Tails (renewal of RC drilling with a core hole) with a total length of 375 m on the south side of the pit to finish. If improving the drilling performance further, could add up to 4 additional core drilled holes. AFR plans to close all the holes until mid December? En. The receiving core and core sampling will extend up to the Christmas holidays and beyond. The analysis results are expected at the beginning of SGS Fabruar back and allow a resource estimate by the end of February.

AFR is the market in terms of progress, if and when the results are available during this exciting phase of development of the company to keep up to date.

Nigel Ferguson, AusIMM, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, a qualified person under National Instrument 43-101, has reviewed the information in this press release.

Proto Resources & Investments LtdShs

2010-12-03T07:53:00.000-08:00

DGAP-News: Proto Resources & Investments Ltd:. Progress on Barnes Hill, new exploration area in the region Doolgunna
Proto Resources & Investments Ltd. / Keyword (s): Interim Report / Preliminary Results

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. 22. November 2010. Proto Resources & Investments Ltd. (TSX: A0LBT8, ASX: PRW) (short 'Proto Resources' THE COMPANY' or) has for the main project Banes Hill set the locations for dieVerarbeitungsanlagen and includes a back row from angeotechnischen tests. The nickel-cobalt project is located near Barnes Hill Beaconsfield in the Australian state of Tasmania. DerTransport of the first large samples to the laboratory at Evans Head will also begin indieser week to comply with the planning for the leaching process and diePilotanlage.

Proto Australia has lodged a further application for an exploration license in derDoolgunna region of the Australian state of Western. The new license area is located in a region of Australia vonWestern with known ore deposits, as dieDeGrussa deposit of sand Fire Resources NL (ore resources derKategorie 'Showing' and 'derived' [Indicated & Inferred] 10.67 million tons with 5 , 6% copper, 1.9 g / t gold and 15 g / t silver) and dieMagellan-lead mine of Ivernia Inc. (ore resource of type 'Gemessen'und' Showing '[Measured & Indicated] of 22, 1 million tonnes grading 4.8% lead).

Summary

- The sites have been defined for the processing plants on Barnes Hill. Current tests are required of the geotechnical Integritätzur of operation of the mine conducted.

- The transportation of the first large-scale samples to the laboratory in Evans Head will start this week, thus the planning for the leaching process and diePilotanlage met.

- A request for a new exploration license area (E69/2872) in derDoolgunna region of Western Australia was made. This new extended the license of exploration properties in Proto Resources requested nor site on five licenses cover an area of 409Quadratkilometern together.

- The company estimates that the new license area, which is 75 kmnordwestlich of Wiluna may contain rocks that are similar to the known copper-gold and lead ore deposits in the region housed. All five license applications in areas of the company nor site are within the Yerrida basin, which originates from demErdzeitalter the Paleoproterozoic basement.

Processing plants on Barnes Hill and processing of bulk samples

The Directors (similar to: Boards of Directors) of Proto Resources announce that BarnesHill the planning and testing for the main project nearing completion. Proto Resources has recently finalized the locations forthe processing systems, and includes current as of the letztengeotechnischen exams that test the integrity of the planned detention basins, which are inTasmanien for mining near Beaconsfield required.

The design of the site is optimized so that the interference with the Umweltminimiert and the control of storage areas for ore ist.de most flexible design is an additional fresh water pools provide the Wasserfür the processing system provides. The geotechnical work program included the implementation of drilling and geotechnical Aushebungendurch a local, Tasmanian subcontractors. This work werdendie suitability of the site for the required infrastructure undErdarbeiten verify. This is an important part of the now completed development and environmental planning to be 'Development Proposaland Environmental Management Plan' for the planned mining and the Nickel and cobalt ore production at Barnes Hill. Proto Resources is pleased to forward the project to this stage of development to haben.Barnes Hill, the second metal producing mine near Beaconsfieldsein.

The transport of the first large-scale samples to the laboratory at Evans Head will also begin. This transport will comply with the planning for the leaching process and diePilotanlage, which are set up for the Barnes Hill ore wurde.Insgesamt 7 tons of ore in this first pilot phase processes. DerTransport the first set of samples will take place this week. Dasausgewählte material is representative of the ore from the planned mining sector. The metallurgical leaching and processing will allow an accurate adjustment of processing, in particular Aufdi concentration of reagents and extraction of salable magnesium and iron from the nickel-cobalt ore from Barnes Hill.

This first large sample was obtained from previous Aircore drilling, dieals remaining holes on Barnes Hill were carried out. Also have been approved nunBohrungen, the ore from the higher-grade saprolite zone are to win. These holes are drilled at a greater distance to each other and performed as a back-flush drilling. This work sindvon Mineral Resources Tasmania has been approved. The subcontractor fürdiese holes will make within 7 to 10 days after the conclusion of another obligation on the way to the site.

Proto Resources also sent samples of the iron oxide layer vonBarnes Hill to Evans Head. These iron-oxidation layer is anmehreren points above the saprolite zone that hosts the ore on Barnes Hill. Proto Resources is confident that an upgrade will be of this overburden an additional source of income. The analytical review of a potential Level upgrade these iron-oxide layer wirdmit an investigation of the potential benefits of choice and start a washing gravel of different sizes.

Request for a new exploration license in Western Australia

Proto Resources also announced that the company has applied for a further exploration license over an area of 52 square kilometers in size derDoolgunna region northwest of Wiluna in Western Australia (see Figure 1). The area is colloquially known as Doolgunna region and consists of the geological basin Bryah, Padburyund Yerrida. This region of Western Australia is almost completely granted and applied for exploration licenses covering. The newly added beantragteExplorationsgebiet the four previously proposed exploration areas on 11 given in October 2010 were known, and extends the gesamtenbeantragten exploration areas of the company to 409 square kilometers.

The new license areas are located within mafischesVulkangestein desYerrida Basin, which is part of the era of the Paleoproterozoic basement rocks of the Paleoproterozoic basement stammt.Zum mapped intrusions and the Killara Formation and sedimentary rock, sandstone and desFinlay Juderina and Maraloou-Fomationen.

The proposed exploration license E69/2872 area is 75 kmnordwestlich of Wiluna along the eastern boundary of the Basin Yerrida Roadund existing rail routes provide easy access to Lizenzgebietzum purpose of exploration. The Western Australian Geological Survey has found both mapping in the field a few clues (any escaping to the surface ore). Currently, combined historical exploration work on the new exploration area. This information thus obtained is conveyed planning to support the initial exploration. This work includes ina first phase probably geological mapping, geophysical andmini ig extraction of soil samples and interpretation. THE COMPANY will continue to talk about his expectations regarding the development and exploration projects in the near future.

Note to ore resources

The information about resources Degrussa the deposit of sand taken from derPressemitteilung Fire Resources NL of 3 September 2010. DieInformationen of resources of the Magellan lead project are from a presentation by Magellan Metals - a complete Tochtergesellschaftvon Ivernia Inc. - of 7 October 2009. It was a cut-off content (= raw material content, above which the degradation is considered to be worthwhile) of 2.5% of lead used in the calculation.

The information in this press release, insofar as it relates aufExplorationsergebnisse based on information compiled by HerrnAndrew Jones. He is a member of the 'Australasian Institute of Mining & Metallurgy' and a full-time employee of TasExGeological Services Pty Ltd. He has sufficient experience which relevantfür the particular type of mineralization under consideration and each case is betrachteteLagerstätte. He has sufficient experience which is relevant to dietary as he does, to be considered a qualified person under '2004 derRechtsvorschrift Edition of the 'Australasian Code for Reporting ofExploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves.'' HerrAndrew Jones consents to the inclusion of information in the Pressemitteilungin the form and context in which they appear.

Cobalt before price explosion?

2010-08-12T10:59:00.000-07:00

Do you know how cobalt get its name? No? Console yourself, until recently, I knew not yet. In the Middle Ages thought the miners, cobalt was bewitched by goblins in worthless rock silver or copper, because it is confused in its natural ore the two metals to the leaves look similar, but foul odors when heated. Today we know better of course. Especially now, no one gets the idea to look at the raw material to be worthless. After all, the prices in the past twelve months have almost doubled and the "bull market" could well go a bit.

Soaring demand

For the cobalt demand is steadily increasing. Will use the metal as an alloy including an addition. The addition of cobalt can be manufactured very hard and heat-and corrosion-resistant steel. Cobalt is also becoming more popular in the high-tech industry. It is mainly used to produce ever smaller and more powerful batteries for cell phones or laptops. The use in this area has almost tripled since 2004. A huge additional demand boom expected to trigger the expected victory of hybrid technology in vehicle. By 2012, market leader Toyota to annually produce one million environmentally friendly cars. This also means that each year one million high-performance batteries, the need to develop, for the cobalt trading is essential. Experts expect a result so that the demand by 2015 will double from the current 60,000 to over 120,000 tons per year, more than. This represents an annual increase of around eight percent.

Tight supply situation

Even if the world's total deposits are relatively abundant, with an estimated 15 million tons, the supply situation is quite tense. Reason: Most reserves are in politically less stable regions of Africa. But in Congo mining companies promote third of the global total output. Among other things involvement in appropriate mining stocks (derivatives on cobalt are there any) subject to considerable risks. Recently, for example, withdrew from the Congolese Government to an undertaking times just the mineral rights for one of the main mines, after which the price fell almost into the abyss. Only after a lengthy court proceedings, it gave back the licenses. Investors with a weak heart, I can recommend the purchase of Cobalt shares is very limited, although I expect the metal in the longer term with further price increases.

Norilsk Nickel increases in the first half production of metals

2010-08-11T02:49:00.001-07:00

Norilsk Nickel increases in the first half production of metals
30.07.2010 19:59

MOSCOW, 30 July (RIA Novosti). The Russian non-ferrous and precious metals producer Norilsk Nickel increased its output of nickel in the first half of 2010 over the previous year by three percent to 145 400 tonnes.

The company said on Friday in Moscow. The production of copper was in the reporting period by two percent to 199.1 thousand tons, of palladium by ten percent to 1.5 million ounces of platinum and has grown by 14 percent to 358,000 ounces, it was said.

Norilsk Nickel is one of the world's largest producers of non-ferrous and precious metals. In the company accounts for more than 20 percent of global production of nickel, more than ten percent of cobalt and three percent of copper production. In Russia, the Group controls 96 percent of the production of nickel, 55 percent copper and 95 percent of cobalt.

Of 25 percent of the shares are held by Interros conglomerate of billionaire Vladimir Potanin and aluminum company RUSAL the oligarch Oleg Deripaska.

Cobalt material

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COBALT AND COBALT ALLOYS. A white metal, Co, resembling nickel
but with a bluish tinge instead of the yellow of nickel. It is rarer and
costlier than nickel, and its price has varied widely in recent years.
Although allied to nickel, it has distinctive differences. It is more
active chemically than nickel. It is dissolved by dilute sulfuric, nitric,
or hydrochloric acid and is attacked slowly by alkalies. The oxidation
rate of pure cobalt is 25 times that of nickel. Its power of whitening
copper alloys is inferior to that of nickel, but small amounts in nickelcopper
alloys will neutralize the yellowish tinge of the nickel and
make them whiter. The metal is diamagnetic like nickel, but has
nearly 3 times the maximum permeability. Like tungsten, it imparts
red-hardness to tool steels. It also hardens alloys to a greater extent
than nickel, especially in the presence of carbon, and can form more
chemical compounds in alloys than nickel.
Cobalt has a specific gravity of 8.756, a melting point of 2723°F
(1495°C), Brinell hardness 85, and an electrical conductivity about
16% that of copper. The ultimate tensile strength of pure cast cobalt
is 34,000 lb/in2 (234 MPa), but with 0.25% carbon it is increased to
62,000 lb/in2 (427 MPa). Strength can be increased slightly by annealing
and appreciably by swaging or zone refining. The metal is used in
tool-steel cutters, in magnet alloys, in high-permeability alloys, and as
a catalyst; and its compounds are used as pigments and for producing
many chemicals. The metal has two forms: a close-packed hexagonal
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crystal form, which is stable below 782°F (417°C), and a cubic form
stable at higher temperatures to the melting point. Cobalt has
valences of 2 and 3, while nickel has only a valence of 2.
The natural cobalt is cobalt 59, which is stable and nonradioactive,
but the other isotopes from 54 to 64 are all radioactive, emitting beta
and gamma rays. Most have very short life, except cobalt 57 which
has a half-life of 270 days, cobalt 56 with a half-life of 80 days, and
cobalt 58 with a half-life of 72 days. Cobalt 60, with a half-life of 5.3
years, is used for radiographic inspection. It is also used for irradiating
plastics and as a catalyst for the sulfonation of paraffin oils, since
gamma rays cause the reaction of sulfur dioxide and liquid paraffin.
Cobalt 60 emits gamma rays of 1.1- to 1.3-MeV energy, which gives
high penetration for irradiation. The decay loss in a year is about
12%, the cobalt changing to nickel.

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Cobalt ore markets

2010-06-25T02:31:00.000-07:00

On the demand side, exporters and strategic planners approaching the market in Europe face a number of questions. Which countries are supplying cobalt ores and concentrates to Europe? What is the dollar value of these imports? How much do the imports of cobalt ores and concentrates vary from one country to another in Europe? Do exporters serving the market in Europe have similar market shares across the importing countries? On the supply side, Europe also sells to the international market of cobalt concentrate and ores. Which countries in Europe supply the most exports of cobalt ores and concentrates? Which countries are buying their exports? What is the value of these exports and which countries are the largest cobalt buyers? This report was created for strategic planners, international marketing executives and import/export managers who are concerned with the market for cobalt ore and concentrates in Europe. With the globalization of this market, managers can no longer be contented with a local view. Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics that appear several years after the fact. I have developed a methodology, based on macroeconomic and trade models, to estimate the market for cobalt ores and concentrates for those countries serving Europe via exports or supplying from Europe via imports. We do so for the current year based on a variety of key historical indicators and econometric models

sellers of cobalt ore

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Sellers of Cobalt ore are wanted. We are looking for sellers of cobalt ore. If you are an genuine seller of cobalt ore, please make contact at cobalt sellers wanted.

cobalt buyers

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We have buyers of cobalt concentrates, if you have cobalt for sale please make contact at cobalt buyers. A company profile and a soft offer for the cobalt are required.

cobalt ore wanted

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We are looking for suppliers of cobalt ore. If you can offer cobalt ore, please make contact at cobalt ore wanted.

south african cobalt ore for sale

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For those interested into buying cobalt ore:
The mine is ready to proceed with the cobalt ore contract over a period of 12 months.
The first delivery is planned for first week in March, 200MT per week in a bonded warehouse in Johannesburg, which gives you a 1000MT per month. However, we need the following urgently to finalise with the mine as well as with the client.

- Buyer's choice of bonded warehouse in Jhb.
- BCL or RWA to show financial commitment/capacity
- Buyers license if applicable
- Buyer's profile/name for FCO purposes

Price on 6% -$2250, 7%- $2650 and 8% cobalt- $3050.

If you are interested into buying cobalt please contact cobalt for sale.

cobalt for sale

2008-02-23T04:51:00.000-08:00

Cobalt ore is for sale. If you would like to purchase south african cobalt ore, make contact at cobalt ore for sale.

cobalt ore at technorati

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Technorati Profile

cobalt element and use

2008-02-02T09:52:00.000-08:00

...Cobalt (Co) is a strategic and critical metal used in many diverse commercial, industrial, and military applications. The largest use of cobalt is in superalloys, which are used to make parts for gas turbine aircraft engines. Cobalt is also used to make magnets; corrosion- and wear-resistant alloys; high-speed steels; cemented carbides (also called hardmetals) and diamond tools; catalysts for the petroleum and chemical
industries; drying agents for paints, varnishes, and inks; ground coats for porcelain enamels; pigments; battery electrodes; steel-belted radial tires; and magnetic recording media....

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cobalt ore information

2008-02-02T06:33:00.000-08:00

information on cobalt ore and cobalt products. Cobalt ore is a very important ingredient in alloys.