美国地质勘探局2006年钴年报.pdfVIP

2006 Minerals Yearbook Cobalt U.S. Department of the Interior April 2008 U.S. Geological Survey Cobalt by Kim b. Shedd Domestic survey data and tables were prepared by Benjamin S. Goff, statistical assistant, and the world production tables were prepared by Linder Roberts, international data coordinator. World production of refined cobalt in 2006 was nearly from the stockpile. the aMP for fiscal year 2007 (october 1, equal to that of 2005. the United States did not mine or 2006, through September 30, 2007) was reduced to 1,590 t (3.5 refine cobalt in 2006. However, a small number of mining million pounds) (Defense National Stockpile Center, 2006a; operations produced negligible amounts of byproduct cobalt as U.S. Department of Defense, 2007, p. 5, 11, 58). intermediate products. Since 1993, sales of excess cobalt from During calendar year 2006, DNSC sold 256 t of cobalt valued the National Defense Stockpile (NDS) have contributed to U.S. at $9.3 million under the boa. on December 31, the total and world supplies. uncommitted cobalt inventory held by the DNSC was 1,250 t of according to the Cobalt Development Institute, world cobalt cathode. demand (consumption and stock increases) for cobalt decreased slightly compared with that of 2005. European apparent demand Production was slightly lower than that of 2005, and Chinese apparent demand was adversely affected by the limited availability of With the exception of negligible amounts of byproduct cobalt raw material. U.S. apparent consumption of cobalt was lower produced from lead and platinum-group metal (PGM) o