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Tantalum was discovered in Sweden in 1802 by Anders Ekeberg, in two mineral samples – one from Sweden and the other from Finland. [15] [16] One year earlier, Charles Hatchett had discovered columbium (now niobium). [17] In 1809, the English chemist William Hyde Wollaston compared the oxides of columbium and tantalum, columbite and tantalite.
Kenticha was mined for tantalum from 1990-2017. [5] Peak production from the mine was 90-95 tons of tantalum concentrate per year, valued at $20 million dollars/year. [3] Another sources states that before 2012, the mine produced 275 tons of tantalum/year, which was nearly 14% of global supply. [6]
There are 2 parts per million of tantalum in the Earth's crust, making it the 51st most abundant element there. Soil contains on average 1 to 2 parts per billion of tantalum, and seawater contains 2 parts per trillion of tantalum. A typical human contains 2.9 parts per billion of tantalum. Tantalum is found in the minerals tantalite and ...
The United States does not produce tantalum due to the poor quality of its reserves. [20] Australian mining company Sons of Gwalia once produced half the world's tantalum but went into administration in 2004. Talison Minerals paid $205 million to buy the Wodgina and Greenbushes tantalum business of Sons of Gwalia but temporarily closed Wodgina ...
The pegmatite ore body now mined by the Tanco Mine was discovered in the late 1920s and the first mining started in 1929. Several times the mine was closed, reopened and closed, until in 1969 when it was reopened as a tantalum mine. [2] Cabot Corporation bought the mine in 1993, and began the production of caesium brine from pollucite in 1996. [4]
Two Indian chemical companies have been indicted for allegedly importing ingredients for the highly addictive opioid fentanyl into the United States and Mexico, the U.S. Department of Justice said ...
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