With existing producers more than capable of fulfilling market demand for the foreseeable future, there seems little prospect of any investment in new niobium mines. CBMM has already showed its capability to expand its existing operations, while Niobec has a reserve base adequate for at least ten more years and is increasing its own plant throughput. In its recent report on niobium, Roskill Information Services predicted that healthy demand growth will soon resume as end-users bring back suspended capacity.