New age metals the geology and genesis of ores re

Authors: David L Huston

Publish Date: 2014/09/04

Volume: 49, Issue: 8, Pages: 885-887

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Abstract

Over the last decade or so the development of technologies associated with consumer electronics renewable energy and specialty steel have sparked demand for a range of “specialty” mineral commodities These commodities are quite diverse and include among others rare earth elements REEs lanthanides Y and Sc Ga In W platinum group elements PGEs Ru Rh Pd Os Ir Pt Co Nb Mg Mo Sb Li V Ni Ta Te Cr Mn Se Ti Sr graphite Sn Ge Be Zr Bi F and Cd Most of these commodities have small restricted markets and in some cases supply is restricted—concentrated in either a small group of countries or producing companies Some elements such as In Ga Cd Se and Te are produced as byproducts of the extraction of base metals

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