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| TABLE 7 | ||||||||||||||
| COBALT: SELECTED PROJECTS SCHEDULED FOR COMPLETION, BY YEAR, 2016-201, 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Annual | ||||||||||||||
| production | ||||||||||||||
| capacity | ||||||||||||||
| Projected | (metric | |||||||||||||
| year of first | Principal | tons, cobalt | ||||||||||||
| production | Country | Project and company | Project type | metal | Ore/feed type | content) | Cobalt product | |||||||
| 2016 | Australia | Nova Nickel | new mine and- | nickel | nickel-copper sulfide | 1,000 | Cobalt in nickel | |||||||
| Indepence Group NL | beneficiation plant | ore | concentrate. | |||||||||||
| 2016 | Congo | Etoile Leach SX-EW3 plant | new refinery | copper | copper-cobalt | 3,800 | Cobalt hydroxide. | |||||||
| (Kinshasa) | Chemaf SPRL | tailings | ||||||||||||
| 2016r | Mexico | El Boleo | new mine and refinery | do. | copper-cobalt-zinc- | 1,700 | Cobalt cathode. | |||||||
| Minera y Metal-rgica del- | manganese oxide | |||||||||||||
| Boleo, S.A.P.I. de C.V.- | and sulfide ore | |||||||||||||
| (Korean Consortium4 and- | ||||||||||||||
| Baja Mining Corp.) | ||||||||||||||
| 2016r | Uganda | Kilembe | reopen former mine | do. | copper-cobalt ore | NA | Cobaltic-pyrite | |||||||
| Tibet Hima Industry Co. Ltd. | tailings. | |||||||||||||
| consortium5 | ||||||||||||||
| 2016 | Zambia | High Grade Cobalt Matte | adapt existing smelter | cobalt | high-grade cobalt | 475 | 6 | NA. | ||||||
| Metallurgy | matte | |||||||||||||
| Chambishi Copper Smelter- | ||||||||||||||
| Ltd. (China Nonferrous | ||||||||||||||
| Mining Corp. Ltd. and | ||||||||||||||
| Yunnan Copper Industry | ||||||||||||||
| Group Co. Ltd.) and- | ||||||||||||||
| Hunan Shijiyintianxinye- | ||||||||||||||
| Technology Co., Ltd. | ||||||||||||||
| 2016 | Do. | Munali nickel mine | restart production from | nickel | nickel-copper-cobalt | 160 | Cobalt in nickel | |||||||
| Consolidated Nickel Mines plc | existing mine | platinum-group | concentrate. | |||||||||||
| metals sulfide ore | ||||||||||||||
| 2016r | Do. | Synclinorium | expansion of existing- | copper | copper-cobalt ore | NA | Copper-cobalt ore. | |||||||
| Mopani Copper Mines Plc | mine | |||||||||||||
| (Glencore plc, First Quantum | ||||||||||||||
| Minerals Ltd., and ZCCM | ||||||||||||||
| Investment Holdings Plc) | ||||||||||||||
| 2017e | Australia | Rocklands Group Copper, | new mine and | do. | copper-cobalt-gold | 600 | e, 6 | Cobaltic-pyrite | ||||||
| stage 1 | beneficiation plant | oxide and sulfide- | concentrate. | |||||||||||
| CuDeco Ltd. | ore | |||||||||||||
| 2017 | Canada | NICO- | new mine, relocated | gold | gold-cobalt-bismuth- | 1,860 | Cobalt sulfate and | |||||||
| Fortune Minerals Ltd. | and refurbished | copper ore | other cobalt | |||||||||||
| beneficiation plant, | salts. | |||||||||||||
| and refinery | ||||||||||||||
| 2017 | Congo | COMMUS (Kolwezi Copper | new mine | copper | copper-cobalt ore | NA | NA. | |||||||
| (Kinshasa) | Mine) | |||||||||||||
| La Compagnie Miniere de | ||||||||||||||
| Musonoie Global SAS [Jin | ||||||||||||||
| Cheng Mining Ltd. (Zijin | ||||||||||||||
| Mining Group Co., Ltd.), La | ||||||||||||||
| G-n-rale des Carri-res et des | ||||||||||||||
| Mines SARL (G-camines),- | ||||||||||||||
| and Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt- | ||||||||||||||
| Co., Ltd.] | ||||||||||||||
| 2017e | Turkey | Caldag | mine, atmospheric tan | nickel | nickel-cobalt laterite | 900 | Cobalt cathode. | |||||||
| Caldag Nikel Madencilik | leach processing- | ore | ||||||||||||
| San. ve Tic A. Ş. | plant, and refinery | |||||||||||||
| 2018e | Australia | Esperance Nickel Sulphate Plant | new refinery | do. | nickel-cobalt- | 100 | e | Cobalt carbonate. | ||||||
| Alpha Fine Chemicals Ltd. | hydroxide | |||||||||||||
| See footnotes at end of table. | ||||||||||||||
| TABLE 7-Continued | ||||||||||||||
| COBALT: SELECTED PROJECTS SCHEDULED FOR COMPLETION, BY YEAR, 2016-201, 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Annual | ||||||||||||||
| production | ||||||||||||||
| capacity | ||||||||||||||
| Projected | (metric | |||||||||||||
| year of first | Principal | tons, cobalt | ||||||||||||
| production | Country | Project and company | Project type | metal | Ore/feed type | content) | Cobalt product | |||||||
| 2018 | Congo | SX-EW3 copper smelter near | new refinery | copper | copper-cobalt oxide | NA | Cobalt hydroxide. | |||||||
| (Kinshasa) | Kolwezi | ore | ||||||||||||
| Chinalco Yunnan Copper | ||||||||||||||
| Resources Ltd. | ||||||||||||||
| 2018e | Do. | Metalkol RTR [Roan Tailings | do. | do. | copper-cobalt tailing | 14,000 | Do. | |||||||
| Reclamation (formerly- | ||||||||||||||
| Kolwezi tailings)], phase 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Eurasian Resources Group, La | ||||||||||||||
| G-n-rale des Carri-res et des | ||||||||||||||
| Mines SARL (G-camines),- | ||||||||||||||
| and Government of Congo | ||||||||||||||
| (Kinshasa) | ||||||||||||||
| 2018e | Do. | Project Minier, stage 2 | expansion of new min | do. | copper-cobalt ore | 4,600 | e | Do. | ||||||
| La Sino-Congolaise des | and beneficiation- | |||||||||||||
| Mines S.A. (Sicomines) | plant; add new- | |||||||||||||
| [China Railway Group Ltd., | processing plant | |||||||||||||
| La G-n-rale des Carri-res- | ||||||||||||||
| et des Mines SARL- | ||||||||||||||
| (G-camines), Sinohydro- | ||||||||||||||
| Corp., and Zhejiang Huayou- | ||||||||||||||
| Cobalt Co., Ltd.] | ||||||||||||||
| 2018r, e | United States | Idaho Cobalt | new mine and refinery | cobalt | stratiform cobalt- | 1,260 | 6 | Cobalt sulfate. | ||||||
| (Idaho) | Formation Metals Inc.- | copper-gold ore | ||||||||||||
| 2018 | Zambia | Chambishi Southeast Mine | new mine | copper | copper-cobalt ore | NA | Copper-cobalt- | |||||||
| NFC Africa Mining Plc (China | concentrate. | |||||||||||||
| Nonferrous Mining Corp. Ltd. | ||||||||||||||
| and ZCCM Investment | ||||||||||||||
| Holdings Plc) | ||||||||||||||
| 2019r | United States | NorthMet, phase 1 | new mine and | do. | copper-nickel- | 360 | Cobalt in nickel | |||||||
| (Minnesota) | PolyMet Mining Corp. | beneficiation plant | platinum-group | concentrate. | ||||||||||
| metals sulfide ore | ||||||||||||||
| eEstimated. rRevised. Do., do. Ditto. NA Not available. | ||||||||||||||
| 1Estimated data are rounded to no more than three significant digits. | ||||||||||||||
| 2Projects in feasibility or later stages of development in 2015. Actual startup dates may be postponed owing to economic or other factors. Additional- | ||||||||||||||
| projects might produce cobalt by 2020, but not enough information was available to include them. | ||||||||||||||
| 3SX-EW solvent extraction-electrowinning. | ||||||||||||||
| 4The Korean consortium comprises the following companies: Korea Resources Corp., L.S. Nikko Copper Inc., Hyundai Hysco Co. Ltd., SK Networks Co. Ltd.,- | ||||||||||||||
| and Iljin Copper Foil Co. Ltd. | ||||||||||||||
| 5The consortium comprises the following companies: Chinalco Luoyang Copper (Aluminum Corp. of China Ltd.), Dongfang Electric Corp., Shanghai- | ||||||||||||||
| Baosteel Group Corp., Tibet Hima Industry Co. Ltd., and Yunnan Copper Industry Co. Ltd. | ||||||||||||||
| 6Average production. | ||||||||||||||
Source: United States Geological Survey Mineral Resources Program
See also: Mineral commodity prices
