Cobalt Production and Markets: A Brief Overview

JOM | October 1, 2006| | Copyright

As pointed out by N.L. Piret1 in 1998, cobalt is considered a base metal when extraction is concerned, but a specialty metal when referring to its applications. Furthermore, in the introduction to a paper he presented in 2005, S. Brown2 described the cobalt industry as opaque, providing the following reasons to explain his choice of wording: a large portion of cobalt raw materials and metal is produced in high-risk countries in Africa where political instabilities have had a major impact on business and investment: cobalt and its compounds are used in a wide array of applications: a number of ...

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