Show me the antimony, Australia

• Autores: Laura Syrett
• Localización: Industrial Minerals, ISSN 0019-8544, Nº. 553, 2013
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Residents' group, "Lock the Nambucca Valley", have voiced fears that the valley's entire catchment could be at risk if antimony In September, Artemis Resources commenced a 15-hole, 3,000 metre drilling programme at its Eastern Hills antimony project, which confirmed the presence of antimony in sulphide mineralisation intersected in the project's southern conductor zones.

    "Antimony, at this point, is a'GDP-mineral' with demand growing about at the rate of GDP growth. Currently, the principal use of antimony is as a fire retardant, in addition to some lesser uses in lead alloys, electronics and semiconductors. One potential large-scale new use we are watching is as a key ingredient in grid-scale, liquid antimony-magnesium electrical power storage batteries," [Mark Sander] says.