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PRINCIPAL WORLD PRODUCERS OF NIOBIUM AND TANTALUM PRODUCTS
 
Country   Company   Products1
Austria   Treibacher Industrie AG   Nb and Ta oxide/carbide, FeNb, and NiNb.
Brazil   Cia. Brasileira de Metalurgia e Mineracao (CBMM)   Nb oxide/metal, FeNb, and NiNb.
Do.   Cia. Industrial Fluminense2   Nb and Ta oxide.
Do.   Mineracao Catalao de Goias S.A. (Catalao)   FeNb.
Canada   Cambior Inc. and Mazarin Inc. (Niobec)   Do.
Estonia   Silmet   Nb oxide/metal.
Germany, western states   Gesellschaft fur Elektrometallurgie mbH (GFE)2   FeNb and NiNb.
Do. H.C. Starck GmbH & Co. KG Nb and Ta oxide/metal/carbide, K-salt, FeNb,
NiNb, and Ta capacitor powder.
Japan   Mitsui Mining & Smelting Co.   Nb and Ta oxide/metal/carbide.
Do.   Cabot Supermetals3   Ta capacitor powder.
Do.   H.C. Starck-V Tech Ltd.4   Do.
Kazakhstan   Ulba Metallurgical   Ta oxide/metal.
Do. Irtysh Chemical & Metallurgical Works Nb oxide/metal.
Russia   Solikamsk Magnesium Works   Nb and Ta oxide.
Thailand   H.C. Starck (Thailand) Co. Ltd.4   K-salt and Ta metal.
United States   Cabot Supermetals3   Nb and Ta oxide/metal, K-salt, and
        Ta capacitor powder.
Do.   H.C. Starck Inc.5   Nb and Ta metal and Ta capacitor powder.
Do.   Kennametal Inc.   Nb and Ta carbide.
Do.   Reading Alloys Inc.   FeNb and NiNb.
Do.   Wah Chang6   Nb metal and FeNb.
1Nb, niobium; Ta, tantalum; FeNb, ferroniobium; NiNb, nickel niobium; K-salt, potassium fluotantalate; oxide, pentoxide.
2A wholly owned subsidiary of Metallurg Inc., New York, NY.
3A wholly owned subsidiary of Cabot Corp.
4A subsidiary of H.C. Starck GmbH & Co. KG.
5Jointly owned by Bayer Corp. and H.C. Starck GmbH & Co. KG.
6A subsidiary of Allegheny Technologies Inc.

Source: United States Geological Survey Mineral Resources Program


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