I think that website is talking about rock chips and crap like that, not underground mining. It's basically obfuscation.
https://www.cobaltinstitute.org/ores-containing-cobalt.html
https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=6&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwj31a-MqNvYAhVFNrwKHZ_dAI8QFghIMAU&url=https://www.bgs.ac.uk/downloads/start.cfm?id=1400&usg=AOvVaw0mYqIIjK0hv9wX5YqihEiZ
Table 2 Summary of main cobalt deposit types.
{caption} 1 Summary of main cobalt deposit types 2 {/caption} 3 Deposit type Genetic process of formation Typical economic grades Major examples 4 Sediment hosted Diagenetic processes in near-shore or saline lagoon environment convert sea water sulphates to sulphides and concentrate metallic elements sourced from sediments. 0.1-0.4% Tenke Fungurume, Democratic Republic of Congo; Mt Isa, Australia 5 Hydrothermal and volcanogenic Precipitation of minerals from hydrothermal fluids passing through the host rock. 0.1% Bou Azzer, Morroco; Keretti, Finland 6 Magmatic sulphide An immiscible liquid sulphide phase is concentrated in magmas. This phase preferentially collects and concentrates metallic elements such as cobalt. 0.1% Norilsk, Russia; Sudbury, Ontario, Canada; Kambalda, Australia 7 Laterite Tropical weathering causes the breakdown of cobalt silicates and sulphides in ultramafic bodies causing cobalt to become enriched in residual weathered rocks. 0.05-0.15% Koniambo Massif, New Caledonia 8 Manganese nodules and cobalt-rich crusts Ferromanganese oxide concretions on the sea floor become enriched in cobalt by extraction from sea water and pore fluids from muds. Up to 2.5% None currently economic
There's also a bunch of other considerations (I'm preaching to the converted), but from what B Borg told me, there's crap like arsenic etc in plenty of other setups. Obviously arsenic is not that great unless you like your heart enlarged.
This is what I understand anyhow, I could well be wrong.
(I'm no geologist so any clarity welcomed.)
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