Abstract
Niobium refers to strategic materials, so the bulk of information, concerned with them, are classified. Published data are poor and, to some extent, contradictory. In this connection, this report is based, to a significant degree, on the estimations of InfoMine experts and specialists in the field.
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
I. Raw material base of niobium in the CIS
- 1.1 Reserves and deposits in the CIS
- 1.2 Mining and processing niobium-containing resources
- 1.3 Current standing of Russian producers of niobium in concentrate
- JSC Sevredmet
- Vishnevogorsky GOK
- Malyshevskoe mining department
- Zabaikalsky GOK
- JSC Stalmag
II. Obtaining commodity niobium-containing products
- 2.1. Ferroniobium production
- 2.1.1 Requirements imposed on ferroniobium grade
- 2.1.2 Current state of the main ferroniobium producers in the CIS.
- Klyuchevskoy ferroalloys plant
- Solikamsk magnesium plant
- JSC Ulbinsky metallurgical plant
- 2.2 Other niobium product production in the CIS
- 2.2.1. Technology of obtaining niobium-containing products in CIS
- 2.2.2. Current standing of the main producers of niobium product in CIS.
- Solikamsk magnesium plant
- JSC Uralredmet
- Chepetsk plant
- JSC Pilot chemical and metallurgical plant "Giredmet"
- AS Silmet
- JSC KazNioby IKhMZ
- JSC Ulbinsky metallurgical plant
- Donetsk chemical and metallurgical works
III. New projects and investments in niobium sector of the CIS
IV. Export and import of niobium products in the CIS
- Russia
- Kazakhstan
V. Consumption of niobium in the CIS and the world
VI. Brief characteristics of world market of niobium
- 6.1 Niobium products production in world
- 6.2 International trade of niobium products
Conclusions
Appendix: Addresses of the companies, contact information
