Cobalt is a chemical element with symbol Co and atomic number 27. Like nickel, cobalt is found in the Earth's crust only in chemically combined form, save for small deposits found in alloys of natural meteoric iron. The free element, produced by reductive smelting, is a hard, lustrous, silver-gray metal.

Today, some cobalt is produced specifically from various metallic-lustered ores, for example cobaltite (CoAsS), but the main source of the element is as a by-product of copper and nickel mining. The copper belt in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic and Zambia yields most of the cobalt mined worldwide. The DRC alone accounted for more than 50% of 2016 world production (123,000 tonnes), according to Natural Resources Canada.

Cobalt is primarily used in the preparation of magnetic, wear-resistant and high-strength alloys. The compounds cobalt silicate and cobalt(II) aluminate (CoAl2O4, cobalt blue) give a distinctive deep blue color to glass, ceramics, inks, paints and varnishes. Cobalt occurs naturally as only one stable isotope, cobalt-59. Cobalt-60 is a commercially important radioisotope, used as a radioactive tracer and for the production of high energy gamma rays.

Now ALB is sourcing for the cobalt ore for the production here in China.

Our purchase quantity for the cobalt ore can be 500MT per month and the commonly specification is as follows:

Cobalt Ore / Cobalt Concentrate Composition:

Cobalt Ore / Cobalt Concentrate with Co: 8.00% min. is acceptable.
Co : 8.00% min.

The rough Cobalt ore and crushed Cobalt Concentrate are all acceptable.

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