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Niobium is a strong and silvery metal that is extracted from the mineral columbite. Used in alloys for making parts of jet engines and rockets, niobium is also an essential component in semiconductors. It’s mainly found in abundance in Brazil and Canada, but Chinese geologists have found niobobaotite – a rare earth iron ore with niobium – in the Bayan Obo Mining District in Inner Mongolia.discovered in N China's Inner Mongolia, received official recognition and was numbered IMA 2022-127a.
This newfound discovery of niobobaotite means China may not have to import niobium in the near future. The country imports 95% of its niobium requirements.spoke to Antonio H. Castro Neto, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the National University of Singapore, who said that the “discovery is significant for China since most of the niobium China uses in the steel industry is imported.
Niobium gets its rarity from the property that it’s a fairly dense element and that its occurrence in the Earth’s crust is valued at only twenty parts per million. The mineral ore has already received its classification from the Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification of the International Mineralogical Association with an official approval number IMA 2022-127a.
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