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Here are five coltan facts you should know. Short for columbite-tantalite, coltan ore itself hosts columbite, also known as niobite, and tantalite, which contain the technology elements niobium ...

FOR many years the chief source of niobium has been the mineral ‘columbite’, a member of the columbite–tantalite series (Fe, Mn) (Nb Ta) 2 O 6. As the name of the series implies, niobium ...

Following initial gravity separation of finely-crushed feed material via Wifley table and low-intensity magnet separation, the first testwork recovered and concentrated the ferro-columbite from an ...

The first industrial scale Coltan (Columbite-Tantalite) separation plant in Africa will be built in Rwanda by AB Minerals Corporation, and will become operational in mid-2017. It will bring much ...

Pegmatite fields, often rich in valuable minerals (especially rare metals), extend from Ruli-Kayenzi and are confirmed to host cassiterite and columbite-tantalite. Situated in Juru Sector ...

This tale begins with a mineral called columbite, the occurrence of which in the United States was presumably discovered by John Winthrop the Younger, an early governor of the Connecticut Colony ...

In 1809, William Hyde Wollaston, an English chemist compared columbite with another mineral, tantalite, and declared that columbium was actually the element tantalum. The two elements are very ...

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