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Resource commodity

Cobalt (commodity)

Cobalt as a sought material, characteristically recovered alongside nickel rather than on its own.

A vertical column of five coloured bands labelled from lateritic soil at the top through ferruginous laterite, clay zone and saprolite to fresh ultramafic bedrock.
SchematicA schematic weathering profile on ultramafic rock, drawn from the layer names the USGS laterite compilation records for the deposits Lithoen holds — saprolite, ferruginous laterite, argillaceous saprolite, weathered serpentinite — and from the model’s account of what the weathering does. Nickel is not added to the profile: it is left behind as magnesium and silicon are removed. The diagram has no scale and no thickness, and it is not any particular deposit.

Original Lithoen diagram · LITHOEN-ORIGINAL

Classification

commodity class
metal

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EstablishedCobalt — one element, atomic number 27.

Cobalt the commodity is sought for a single chemical element, cobalt, of atomic number 27. Unlike the platinum-group and rare-earth commodities, which gather several elements, this commodity and that element stand one to one.

  • definition basis: The CIAAW table of standard atomic weights, which lists cobalt as one element.

Evidence support: Supported by the cited evidence one source

Evidence: Commission on Isotopic Abundances and Atomic Weights (IUPAC) 2024 Primary authority

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Record last updated 2026-09-07. Corrections follow the published corrections policy; superseded claims are retained, never silently edited.