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Dragynn

02/26/10 10:26 AM

#78206 RE: CricketPie09 #78205

I'm sorry, but again, you might want to hit the link I provided, the Brazilian mines are in fact open-pit, they don't even have to tunnel for the stuff, it's practically laying on the surface, and not in the jungle either, check the photos of the two largest and you'll see. In addition, these two mines in Brazil alone, are said to have so much proven easily accessible niobium, that they could supply world demand at current levels, for the next 500 years.

Dragynn

02/26/10 10:49 AM

#78207 RE: CricketPie09 #78205

Images from Companhia Brasileira de Metalurgia e Mineração (CBMM), these guys even have their own nursery on-site to grow seedling trees to re-plant, they process and package all their own products. This is the largest niobium producer in the world.








sarshee

02/26/10 11:39 AM

#78211 RE: CricketPie09 #78205

One of the largest discoveries of Niobium in Brazil will probably never be developed. I read about it's accessibility and something about the area being a natural monument or something like that, and the likelihood of developement being vertually nil. jmho

browndawg

JPGetty

02/26/10 1:55 PM

#78220 RE: CricketPie09 #78205

There may be political ramifications, too, in that, they may not be as friendly to some buyers -- USA -- as they are to others.