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| TABLE� 9 | ||||
| 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