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In World of Warcraft, it is a rare ore used to make weapons and armor of uncommon, rare and epic grade. In The Dark Elf Trilogy by R. A. Salvatore set in the Dungeons & Dragons universe it is used to make drow weaponry. It is also used for armor in The Elder Scrolls III, and in the game Terraria it is
Terraria (/ t ə ˈ r ɛər i ə / ⓘ tə-RAIR-ee-ə [1]) is a 2011 action-adventure sandbox game developed by Re-Logic. The game was first released for Windows and has since been ported to other PC and console platforms.
Its name stems from the contained element cobalt, whose name is attributed to the German term Kobold, referring to an "underground spirit" or "goblin". The notion of "bewitched" minerals stems from cobaltite and other cobalt ores withstanding the smelting methods of the medieval period, often producing foul-smelling, poisonous fumes in the process.
Eventually, a less costly pigment was developed from cobalt ores, giving the color its present-day name. Cosmic Cobalt has been a favorite color for artists of every era. Getty Images/Wikimedia ...
Cobalt-based blue pigments (cobalt blue) have been used since antiquity for jewelry and paints, and to impart a distinctive blue tint to glass. The color was long thought to be due to the metal bismuth. Miners had long used the name kobold ore (German for goblin ore) for some of the blue pigment-producing minerals.
Around 75 per cent of the world’s cobalt is mined in the DRC -- and the world cannot get enough of it. The rare, silvery metal is an essential component to every lithium-ion rechargeable battery ...
Heterogenite is a natural tri-valent cobalt oxyhydroxide mineral. [2] It is the most abundant oxidised cobalt mineral in the Katanga Copperbelt, a region in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. [3] About 70% of known heterogenite is located in the DRC. [4]
Jervois also owns a cobalt refinery in Finland, and the company had planned to send the ore mined in Idaho to another refinery in São Paulo, Brazil — an expensive prospect.