Sentences with phrase «for tantalum»

Or, where are the minerals such as columbite - tantalite (coltan), cassiterite, wolframite (ores for tantalum, tin, and cobalt, respectively) and gold, being harvested?

For solid vessels, the highest melting point recorded is for tantalum hafnium carbide, which has a potential melting point of 4263 kelvin.

Not exact matches

General Mining Corporation shares fell sharply today after the company announced revised terms for the acquisition of an interest in Galaxy Resources» Mt Cattlin tantalum project near Ravensthorpe.

As corporations increasingly rely on contractors for core parts of their business, they are held responsible by ethically minded consumers for actions further back in the supply chain - even the provenance of the mineral tantalum in their electronic devices like smartphones.

Perth - based explorer Galaxy Resources has successfully raised $ 1 million through a book build to sophisticated investors, with funds to be applied to a definitive feasibility study for its Mt Cattlin lithium - tantalum project at Ravensthorpe.

Go back a few years, to the last tantalum boom of 1999 and you will find that it was demand across the electronics industry, especially for phones that drove tantalum demand and lifted SOG's share as high as $ 10.

«Back to around the 2000 peak,» is one comment from a senior executive of NEC Tokin Corporation, a major user of tantalum, which has peculiar properties making it the best metal for switching electronic signals in small devices.

Mustang has optioned 100 % of the mineral rights from Tantalum Mining Corporation of Canada Ltd. («Tanco») in return for a 2 % net smelter royalty and a commercial right retained by Tanco to purchase products produced from the property.

To that end, it recently announced the purchase of Holy Stone Polytech Co., a manufacturer of tantalum capacitors based in Japan, for roughly $ 21 million in cash.

Corrosion of oxide dispersion strengthened iron - chromium steels and tantalum in fluoride salt coolant: An in situ compatibility study for fusion and fusion - fission hybrid reactor concepts

This process was studied, with both modeling and experimentation, for a single - phase tantalum - titanium alloy that was dealloyed by a copper liquid metal.

Trace elements are increasingly widely used in the high - tech and medical sectors — for example, the transition metal tantalum and the semimetal germanium in electronic components, niobium and titanium in alloys and coatings, or gadolinium as a contrast medium and in luminous paints.

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) does not list the Central African nation as a leading tantalum source, yet for years rogue militias have managed to smuggle Congolese coltan out onto the market.

This property makes tantalum perfect for producing the electricity - storing capacitors ubiquitous in the circuit boards of computers, digital cameras, and cell phones.

While researchers already knew the potential value of tantalum oxide for memories, such arrays have been limited to about a kilobyte because denser memories suffer from crosstalk that allows bits to be misread.

Using the Center for Nanoscale Materials, a DOE Office of Science user facility at Argonne, they built a constricted wire out of a three - layered structure in which a tiny layer of magnetic material is sandwiched between tantalum and tantalum - oxide layers.

, published on the website < http://planetasustentavel.abril.com.br/noticia/ambiente/quando-recursos-minerais-se-esgotarao-648952.shtml >, based on information from the US Geological Survey, the US government agency responsible for geological research that crossed information on the annual consumption, mineral reserves available on the planet and its predictable extinction: 1) Platinum (use in surgical materials)-- Extinction by 2049; 2) Silver (use in the manufacture of mirrors and cutlery)-- Extinction in 2016; 3) Copper (use in wire and cable and air conditioning ducts)-- Extinction in 2027; 4) Antimony (use in remote controls and other materials to increase strength)-- Extinction 2020; 5) Lithium (use in cell phone batteries, laptops and video games)-- Extinction in 2053; 6) Phosphorus (use in agricultural fertilizers)-- Extinction in 2149; 7) Uranium (use for electric power generation)-- Extinction in 2026; 8) Indian (use in smartphones and tablets touch screen screens)-- Extinction in 2020; 9) Tantalum (use in cameras lenses)-- Extinction in 2027; 10) Nickel (use in metal alloy coating, electronics such as cell phones)-- Extinction in 2064; 11) Tin (use in coating metal alloys, such as those used in the soft drink cans)-- Extinction 2024; 12) Lead (use in car batteries and trucks and welds and bearings)-- Extinction in 2015; 13) Gold (use as jewelry and computer microchips)-- Extinction in 2043; 14) Zinc (use to cover alloys, preventing rust that destroy objects like coins)-- Extinction in 2041.