Thread: MiG-29 “FALCON HUNTER” Exclusive : THE WINNER

Originally Posted by avon1944

...Almost 90% of the world's "antimony" is within the borders of the USSR...Canada has about 3% of the world's antimony. The USA always purchased its antimony from Canada. Never mind the amount of antimony purchased each year was far greater than what Canada mined!

For such a rare element, you wouldn't think it was the #1 alloying element in lead acid car batteries...

suggest you read this:

http://www.indexmundi.com/en/commodi...y_table09.html

Additional historical data here:

Estimates of the abundance of antimony in the Earth's crust range from 0.2 to 0.5 parts per million. Antimony is chalcophile, occurring with sulfur and the heavy metals, lead, copper, and silver. Over a hundred minerals of antimony are found in nature. Stibnite (Sb2S3) is the predominant ore mineral of antimony.

The most important use of antimony metal is as a hardener in lead for storage batteries. The metal also finds applications in solders and other alloys. Antimony trioxide is the most important of the antimony compounds and is primarily used in flame-retardant formulations. These flame-retardant applications include such markets as children's clothing, toys, aircraft and automobile seat covers.

http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pu...index.html#mcs

Over 3/4 of the world's antimony comes from China, other important sources are South Africa, Russia, and Bolivia. Even the US produces a significant amount as a by-product of gold and silver mining. Only a very small percentage of the antimony we use goes into semiconductors. It certainly doesn't have the strategic significance that titanium has/had, especially in the 60's and 70's.

Hey Dima, good job on the MiG posts lol. Saw your posts on that other
website you were banned from. they were pretty informative.