Battle for control of DRC fuelled by increasing demand for minerals such as coltan and cobalt, crucial in smartphones and ...

Diplomatic sources say the bloc is facing calls to suspend its wide-ranging minerals agreement with Rwanda amid fears it is ...

The Impact Assessment Agency of Canada (IAAC) is holding a public comment period as part of the post-decision phase for the Rose Lithium-Tantalum Mining Project, an open-pit lithium and tantalum mine ...

The rebels, which Rwanda denies supporting, have long been funded at least in part by the illicit mineral trade.

Tantalum is a metal in group VB of the periodic table with atomic number 73, an atomic weight of 180.95, and a density of 16.6 Mg/m 3. Its melting point is 2996 C, and it boils at 5425 C. In the solid ...

We've got tantalum to thank for making our mobiles so easy to lose. It's this element that's allowed them to evolve from the house bricks of the nineteen eighties to the Star-trek style communicators ...

When this amorphous oxide layer forms on the surface of tantalum-;a superconductor that shows great promise for making the "qubit" building blocks of a quantum computer-;it can impede the material ...

Medical implants are gaining in importance for patient quality of life. Advancements in additive manufacturing processes, otherwise known as 3D printing, and the development of compatible tantalum and ...