About Cobalt
Rapidly growing demand for personal transportation across emerging nations such as China and India is creating new environmental and energy based challenges. Adopting solutions, such as the electrification of the automobile, is just one movement that will alter the course of the world's future on going "green."
Just as gas powered autos have depended on oil for the past 100 years, the world's future fleet of electric vehicles may very well depend on a strategic element mined in a primary capacity in only a handful of locations.
This essential element is cobalt.
Cobalt, atomic symbol Co is a hard, lustrous, silver-grey metal that based on its unique properties has many applications. Although cobalt has been used since ancient times to impart a rich blue colour to glass, glazes and ceramics, it wasn't until 1735 that the free metallic form was prepared and discovered. Since then, the applications have been varied and the element has played a significant role in industrial uses, the hi-tech industry, medical uses, environmental operations and strategic purposes.
There has been growing momentum in recent years around environmental sustainability and as the socio-economical impact of environmental issues rises, green initiatives have become a global focus.
