OFR 68-82 - New Procedure for Recovering Nickel & Cobalt from Western Laterites. 1982.

A pilot program was undertaken to evaluate a process developed by the U.S. Bureau of Mines to recover nickel, cobalt, copper and chromite from domestic nickel laterite resources. An existing five ton per day pilot plant was modified to accommodate treatment of laterite by the Bureau process, which employs reductive roasting, ammoniacal sulfate leaching, solvent extraction, and electrowinning to extract, separate, and recover nickel, cobalt and copper as high purity cathode products. Three distinct types of laterite i.e., limonite, saprolite and a mixture of limonite / saprolite were processed through the plant during three operating campaigns. Nickel cathode was made during all three campaigns, while cobalt cathode...

Tags: Cobalt, Nickel

Compilation of Geospatial Data (GIS) for the Mineral Industries of Select Countries in the Indo-Pacific

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has compiled a geodatabase containing mineral-related geospatial data for 19 countries of interest in the Indo-Pacific region (area of study): Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Burma, Fiji, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nauru, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Singapore, Solomon Islands, South Korea (Republic of Korea), Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Timor-Leste, and Vietnam. The data can be used in analyses of the extractive fuel and nonfuel mineral industries integral for the successful operation of the mineral industries within the area of study. This geodatabase reflects the USGS ongoing commitment to its mission of understanding the nature and distribution of global mineral commodity...

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Asia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Burma, All tags... Economic Geology, Energy Resources, Fiji, Geography, Indo-Pacific, Information Sciences, LNG, Malaysia, Malaysia-Thailand Joint Development Area (JDA), Mineral Resources, Mongolia, NGL, Nauru, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Singapore, Solomon Islands, South Korea (Republic of Korea), Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Timor-Leste, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Vietnam, alumina, aluminum, antimony, arsenic, bauxite, bismuth, cadmium, calcium carbonate, cement, chromium, clay, coal, coal area, coal occurrence, coal resources, coalbed methane, coalfield, cobalt, coke, commodity, continuous resources, conventional resources, copper, copper occurrence, copper resources, development, exploration, feldspar, ferroalloys, fluorspar, gallium, garnet, gas, gas production, gemstone, gold, graphite, gypsum, hydrocarbon resources, hydrogen, indium, iron and steel, iron ore, iron sand, lead, lime, liquefied natural gas, liquid natural gas, lithium, magnesium, manganese, mica, mine, mineral, mineral commodity, mineral development, mineral exploration, mineral occurrence, mineral processing, mineral resources, minerals, mining, mining exploration, molybdenum, natural gas, natural gas liquids, nickel, niobium, nitrogen, oil, oil and gas, oil production, palladium, peat, perlite, permissive, petroleum, phosphate, phosphate rock, platinum, platinum group elements, porphyry copper, potassium, pyrophyllite, rare earths, recoverable resources, refinery, refining, resources, rhenium, rhodium, salt, sand and gravel, scandium, sediment-hosted stratabound copper, selenium, shale gas, shale oil, silica, silica sand, silicon, silver, smelting, stone, sulfur, talc, tantalum, tellurium, tight gas, tight oil, tin, titanium, tracts, tungsten, unconventional resources, undiscovered resources, uranium, vanadium, zeolites, zinc, zirconium, Fewer tags

WMR 078 - Blackbird District. Lemhi County, Idaho. 1943.

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Cobalt, Copper, Lehmi County, Idaho

Compilation of Geospatial Data (GIS) for the Mineral Industries and Related Infrastructure of the People's Republic of China

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has compiled a geodatabase containing mineral-related geospatial data for the People's Republic of China. The data can be used in analyses of the extractive fuel and nonfuel mineral industries and related economic and physical infrastructure integral for the successful operation of the mineral industries within the area of study as well as the movement of mineral products across domestic and global markets. This geodatabase reflects the USGS ongoing commitment to its mission of understanding the nature and distribution of global mineral commodity supply chains by updating and publishing the georeferenced locations of mineral commodity production and processing facilities, mineral...

Tags: Asia, China, Economic Geology, Energy Resources, Fujian Province, All tags... GIS, Geography, Guangdong Province, Guanxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Hainan Province, Hebei Province, Hunan Province, Information Sciences, Jiangsu Province, LNG, Mineral Resources, NGL, PGE, REE, Shandong Province, South China Sea, Tianjin Municipality, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Zhejiang Province, aluminum, amethyst, antimony, antimony occurrence, antimony resources, aquamarine, aragonite, arsenic, asbestos, barite, barium, bauxite, beforsite, bentonite, beryl beryllium, bismuth, boron, brine, brown coal, bulk cargo, bulk shipping, cadmium, calcium, celestite, cement, cesium, chromium,, clay, coal, coal (brown), coal (hard), coal occurrence, coal resources, coalbed methane, coalfield, cobalt, columbium, commodity, continuous resources, conventional resources, copper, copper occurrence, copper resources, dam, deposit, diamond, electrical transmission lines, electricity, electricity generation, emerald, energy, energy generation, epidote, evaporite-related potash, exploration, extra high voltage, ferroalloys, floating storage, fluorite, fluorspar, fluxstone, gallium, garnet, gas, gas production, gas terminal, gemstone, gemstones, geography, gold, graphite, gypsum, hafnium, halite, halite (brine), hard coal, hydrocarbon resources, iron, iron (carbonatite), iron and steel, iron ore, kyanite, lapiz lazuli, lead, limestone, liquefied natural gas (LNG), lithium, magnesite, magnesium, manganese, marble, maritime port, mercury, methanol, mica, mine, mineral, mineral commodity, mineral deposit, mineral exploration, mineral exports, mineral occurrence, mineral processing, mineral resources, minerals, mining, mining exploration, molybdenum, morganite, muscovite, natural gas, natural gas liquids (NGL), nickel, niobium, niobium (columbium), non-renewable energy, ochre, oil, oil and gas, oil and gas terminal, oil production, oil terminal, onshore, peat, petroleum, phosphate, phosphate occurrence, phosphate resources, phosphorite, phosphorus, platinum-group elements, porphyry copper, port, port terminal, potash, potash occurrence, potash resources, potassium, power, power generation, power lines, power plant, power station, power transmission, quartz, rare earth elements, recoverable resources, refinery, refining, regasification, regasification unit (FSRU), renewable energy, resources, rhenium, rose quartz, rubidium, ruby, salt, sand, sand (glass), sand and gravel, sandstone, sapphire, sediment-hosted stratabound copper, selenium, serpentine, shale gas, shale oil, shipping port, silica, silver, smelting, sodium, sphalerite, spinel, strontium, sulfur, sövite, talc, tantalum, technetium, tellurium, terminal, thorium, tight gas, tight oil, tin, titanium, tourmaline, transmission lines, tungsten, ultra high voltage, unconventional resources, undiscovered resources, uranium, vanadium, vermiculite, water storage, zinc, zirconium, Fewer tags

OFR 33-85 - A Copper-Cobalt Occurrence in the Cape Krusenstern Area, Northwestern Alaska. 1985.

Barker, J.C., and Roberts, W.S., 1985, A copper-cobalt occurrence in the Cape Krusenstern area, northwestern Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report 33-85, 16 p.

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Cobalt, Copper, Northwestern Alaska

OFR 175-84 - Cobalt-Bearing Deposits Related to Mineral Terranes of Alaska. 1984.

Cobalt minerals or anamolous concentrations of cobalt associated with sulfide minerals have been identified in 21 deposits in Alaska. Undoubtedly other deposits exist because there has been little economic incentive to search for cobalt in Alaska and none has been produced. In the known deposits, cobalt occurs in trace amounts recoverable only if the deposit is mined for other minerals and if the cobalt can be concentrated during mining and milling. Two of the known cobalt occurrences (Brady Glacier and Yakobi Island) are in large copper -nickel deposits. A third (Bornite) is associated with a large copper sulfide deposit. A fourth occurrence (Jarvis Glacier) was recently discovered in a geologic setting possibly...

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Alaska (AK), Cobalt

OFR 96-92 - The Materials Flow of Cobalt in the United States. 1992.

Tags: Cobalt

Aqueous and solid phases partitioning of elemental constituents associated with Marcellus Shale Energy and Environment Laboratory (MSEEL) gas well produced wastewater, Morgantown, WV, 2016 - 2019

The Marcellus Shale Energy and Environment Laboratory (MSEEL) site is a long-term field site and laboratory at the Northeast Natural Energy LLC (NNE) production facility, adjacent to the Monongahela River, located in western Monongalia County, West Virginia, USA. NNE began drilling two horizontal production wells, MIP (Morgantown Industrial Park) -5H and MIP-3H, in the Marcellus Shale in 2014. The wells were completed in December 2015. Large volumes of wastewater are generated with natural gas production. These wastewaters contain organic and inorganic chemical constituents from fracturing fluids used during drilling and stimulation of gas in host rocks/shale, as well as chemical compounds that are derived from...

Categories: Data; Tags: Energy Resources, Environmental Health, Geochemistry, MSEEL, Marcellus Shale Energy and Environment Laboratory, Morgantown, All tags... USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Quality, West Virginia, aluminum, arsenic, barium, boron, cadmium, calcium, chemical analysis, chromatography, chromium, cobalt, copper, dissolved metals, dissolved organic compounds, environment, geochemistry, hydraulic fracturing, iron, isotope geochemistry, isotopic analysis, laboratory experiments, laboratory methods, lead, lithium, magnesium, manganese, mercury, molybdenum, natural gas resources, nickel, phosphorus, potassium, selenium, silicon, sodium, strontium, sulfur, suspended material (water), thallium, toxic trace element contamination, uranium, vanadium, water chemistry, water pH, water properties, water temperature, zinc, Fewer tags

Mineral Commodity Summaries 2024 - COBALT Data Release

This data release contains the U.S. salient statistics and world production data extracted from the COBALT data sheet of the USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2024.

Categories: Data; Tags: United States, cobalt, metallic mineral resources

OFR 213-84 - Concentrations of Cobalt and Other Metals in the Western Crazy Mountains, Interior Alaska. 1984.

The Bureau of Mines mission is to help insure that the supply of minerals is adequate to meet the Nation's needs at acceptable costs. The Bureau's Alaska Field Operations Center is currently reviewing and investigating numerous reported occurrences of critical and strategic minerals in Alaska. Many minerals that are obtained from foreign sources, and for which no satisfactory domestic substitutes are known, are essential to industry and defense. Minerals of this type are termed critical and strategic. This report discusses studies of cobalt in the western Crazy Mountains and is one of several on Alaska's critical and strategic mineral resources by the Bureau's Alaska Field Operations Center.

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Cobalt, Western Crazy Mountains, Alaska

The major, minor, and trace element geochemistry of mineral scales from The Geysers geothermal field, California, USA

This data release provides quantitative whole rock geochemical results from The Geysers vapor-dominated geothermal field in California. The concentrations of major elements are reported in oxide weight percent by wavelength dispersive x-ray fluorescence (WDXRF), the concentrations for sixty elements are reported in elemental weight percent (pct) or parts per million (ppm) from inductively coupled plasma-optical emission spectrometry-mass spectrometry ICP-OES-MS analysis, mercury is reported in ppm by cold vapor atomic absorption spectrometry (CVAAS), and ammonium in ppm from automated colorimetry analysis. The analyses show significant enrichment of volatile elements and elements such as sulfur, boron, arsenic,...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: California, GGGSC, Geochemistry, Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center, Lake County, All tags... MRP, Mineral Resources Program, Sonoma County, The Geysers, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, ammonium, arsenic, boron, chemical analysis, cobalt, cold vapor atomic absorption spectrometry (CVAAS), copper, geochemistry, geoscientificInformation, geothermal field, iron, lead, mercury, mineral resources, mineral scales, mineralogy, nickel, sulfur, wavelength dispersive X-ray fluorescence (WDXRF), zinc, Fewer tags

OFR 07-88 - Cobalt in Forsterite-Olivine Deposits of the Blue Ridge, North Carolina & Georgia. 1988.

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Cobalt, Georgia (GA), North Carolina (NC)

OFR 79-82 - Bound Liquid Ion Exchange Membranes for the Extraction of Cobalt from Lateritic Leach Solutions. 1982.

Poroplastic membranes containing ion exchange liquids were studied for separating cobalt from nickel- containing solutions similar to ammoniacal laterite leaches. The driving force for cobalt transport was differences in pH and composition between the leach and extraction streams. Using a diketone ion exchange liquid, a leach pH of 6.5 to 7.0, and a strip pH of 2.3, cobalt was extracted from a 750 ppm solution containing 2500 ppm of nickel at rates ranging from 1 to 10 ug /cm2 min in single membrane cells, and from 10 to 100 in more closel spaced multiple membrane cells. Rates were variable, with evidence that cross -membrane flow patterns were a key factor; a reproducible rate of 30 ug /cm2 min would be economically...

Tags: Cobalt

Alaska Geochemical Database Version 4.0 (AGDB4) including best value data compilations for rock, sediment, soil, mineral, and concentrate sample media

The Alaska Geochemical Database Version 4.0 (AGDB4) contains geochemical data compilations in which each geologic material sample has one best value determination for each analyzed species, greatly improving efficiency of use. The relational database includes historical geochemical data archived in the USGS National Geochemical Database (NGDB), the Atomic Energy Commission National Uranium Resource Evaluation (NURE) Hydrogeochemical and Stream Sediment Reconnaissance databases, and the Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys (DGGS) Geochemistry database. Data from the U.S. Bureau of Mines and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management are included as well. The data tables describe historical and new quantitative...

Tags: AGDB, AMRAP, Alaska Geochemical Database, Alaska Mineral Resource Assessment Program, Alaska Range, All tags... Aleutian Range, Alexander Archipelago, Brooks Range, Chugach Mountains, Economic Geology, Geochemistry, Heavy Mineral Program, Kuskokwim Mountains, Mineral Resources, Seward Peninsula, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wrangell Mountains, aluminum, analytical chemistry, antimony, arsenic, ash, barium, beryllium, bismuth, boron, bound or essential water, bromine, bulk density, cadmium, calcium, calcium carbonate, carbon, carbon dioxide, carbonate carbon, cerium, cesium, chemical analysis, chlorine, chromium, cobalt, copper, dysprosium, environmental geochemistry, erbium, europium, exploration geochemistry, f02013=Eastern Aleutian Islands, f02016=Western Aleutian Islands, fOC4101=Gulf of Alaska, fOC4102=Bering Sea, fUS02=Alaska, fUS=United States, ferric iron, ferrous iron, fluorine, gadolinium, gallium, geochemical data, geochemistry, geoscientificInformation, germanium, gold, hafnium, heavy-mineral concentrate chemistry, holmium, hydrogen, indium, iodine, iridium, iron, lanthanum, lead, lithium, loss on ignition, lutetium, magnesium, manganese, mercury, mineral resources, mineralogical data, mineralogy, moisture or nonessential water, molybdenum, neodymium, nickel, niobium, nitrate, nitrogen, organic carbon, osmium, pH, palladium, phosphorus, platinum, potassium, powder density, praseodymium, pyritic sulfur, rhenium, rhodium, rock chemistry, rubidium, ruthenium, samarium, scandium, sediment chemistry, selenium, silicon, silver, sodium, soil chemistry, strontium, sulfate, sulfide, sulfur, tantalum, tellurium, terbium, thallium, thorium, thulium, tin, titanium, total water, tungsten, uranium, vanadium, ytterbium, yttrium, zinc, zirconium, Fewer tags

OFR 194-84 - Minerals Availability Commodity Directory on Cobalt. 1984.

This Bureau of Mines Open File Report on cobalt is one of a series of minerals availability commodity deposit abstracts. Nonconfidential information from the Minerals Availability Program data base covering domestic and foreign cobalt properties and deposits has been abstracted for use in this report. Abstracts include applicable data on location, published reserves and resources, geology, mine and beneficiation systems, and operation information.

Tags: Cobalt

OFR 121-79 - Availability of Copper, Nickel, Cobalt & Manganese from Ocean Ferromanganese Nodules. 1979.

Tags: Cobalt, Copper, Manganese, Nickel

WMR 003 - St. Louis Smelting & Refining Co Property. Madison County, Missouri. 1942.

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Cobalt, Copper, Lead, Madison County, Missouri, Nickel