Comments on: Rio Tinto becomes first North American producer of scandium oxide /rio-tinto-becomes-first-north-american-producer-of-scandium-oxide/ No 1 source of global mining news and opinion Wed, 11 May 2022 19:01:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 By: Łukasz /rio-tinto-becomes-first-north-american-producer-of-scandium-oxide/#comment-284172 Wed, 11 May 2022 19:01:44 +0000 /?p=1089790#comment-284172 Scandium oxide discussed here is not a mineral. It is a man-made compound derived from scandium-bearing ores like bauxite, limonite, thortveitite, etc. A mineral chemically fitting to scandium oxide, named kangite, is extremely rare.

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