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CBMM, Araxá, Minas Gerais
Araxá, Brazil19.59°S 46.94°W
computed criticality29/100
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≈80% of world niobium supply from a single company
2024Fault line
An extreme case of concentration: a single company, on a single site, supplies more than 80% of the world's niobium. The metal is irreplaceable in high-strength steels, turbine superalloys and the NbTi superconducting wires of MRI machines. A single incident at Araxá would simultaneously affect steelmaking, aerospace and medical imaging.
Actors
CBMM (Araxá)
CITIC Metal (Beijing, shareholder)
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