

o Intense blue color when combined with silica. o Low thermal and electrical conductivity. o Hardness and wearresistance when alloyed with other metals. Significant differences in ore properties (geochemistry, mineralogy, alteration and physical properties) exist between cobalt-containing deposits, as well as within a single deposit, which can. Key properties: o Ferromagnetism (even at high temperature). All other known metals (iron, copper, silver, gold, zinc, mercury, tin, lead and bismuth) had no recorded discoverers. The largest cobalt ore producing countries during. CobaltProperties and Uses Cobalt is a silvery gray metal. Cobalt became the first metal to be discovered since the pre-historical period. He showed that compounds of cobalt metal were the source of the blue color in glass, which previously had been attributed to the bismuth found with cobalt. Swedish chemist Georg Brandt (1694–1768) is credited with discovering cobalt circa 1735, showing it to be a previously unknown element, distinct from bismuth and other traditional metals. This indicated that the leaching of Co from the Co ore was controlled by an interfacial chemical reaction, and then the developed leaching kinetics model of the. Because the primary ores of cobalt always contain arsenic, smelting the ore oxidized the arsenic into the highly toxic and volatile arsenic oxide, adding to the notoriety of the ore. The first attempts to smelt those ores for copper or silver failed, yielding simply powder (cobalt(II) oxide) instead. The word cobalt is derived from the German kobalt, from kobold meaning "goblin", a superstitious term used for the ore of cobalt by miners. Discovery of cobaltCobalt has been used to color glass since the Bronze Age.
