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By Andy Home
LONDON, July 26 (Reuters) - Scandium sits in the shadows of the periodic table. Even by the esoteric standards of other critical minerals, the soft, silvery metal with the atomic number 21 is something of an enigma.
The global market is thought to be somewhere between 15 and 25 tonnes in size, but no one is very sure. Production is potentially a lot higher. It's difficult to say, however, since much of it is in China and production is always as a by-product of other metals.
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LONDON, July 26 (Reuters) - Scandium sits in the shadows of the periodic table. Even by the esoteric standards of other critical minerals, the soft, silvery metal with the atomic number 21 is something of an enigma.
The global market is thought to be somewhere between 15 and 25 tonnes in size, but no one is very sure. Production is potentially a lot higher. It's difficult to say, however, since much of it is in China and production is always as a by-product of other metals.
Russi...
>>> Read more: COLUMN-Where there's muck there's brass ... and critical minerals: Andy Home