| From Hardassetsinvestor.com: Quite apart from having been discovered relatively recently, tantalum's uses are decidedly modern, especially its main use in electronics: in capacitors.
While tantalum capacitors may command only a 3-5% share of the overall capacitor market, in 2007, according to figures from Talison Minerals (until recently the world's largest single producer of tantalum), demand for the tantalum wire and metal powder used to make them accounted for around 50% of global tantalum production (around 2,000 tonnes of tantalum metal)..... Full Article: Source
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