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Calderwood said tantalum accounts for about 10 per cent of Alliance’s revenues.

“It brings down costs by 10 per cent, so it makes a difference,” he said.

According to Calderwood, Alliance is the only company that has high tantalum as well as low radiation, arsenic and antimony.

“There’s reasonable demand for it because it is a very high-grade product,” he said.

“We get the full market concentrate price and we send it to Europe. We’re one of the few that can send it to Europe.”

Ref: Whatever tantalum even is, Australia could steal its market share from Africa