Minor metals belong to nonferrous metals and just get small reserves, so it is called minor metals. Although the quantity is minor, it covers many kinds of metals as below. They play important roles in different industries, for example semiconductor, catalyst, solar cell, smelting, alloys, super alloys, hard alloys, chemicals, gold refining, optical materials and so on. Rare Earths belong to minor metals too. China is main source of various rare earths.
The first reserves of indium is in China, which take 90% of worldwide supplies. Indium is mainly used in display, LCD, FPD, low-melting-point alloys, solder, semiconductors and vacuum coating. It is mainly from byproduct of lead zinc ore. It is available in forms as wires, foils, powder, granular, sputtering targets and so on.
Tungsten own the highest melting point that is 3410℃. It is raw material for hard alloys, special steels and tungsten filament. It is available in forms as wires, foils, powder, granules, rods, sputtering targets and so on.
Germanium gets wide applications in optical fibre communication, night-vision device, thermal imager, oil catalyst, solar cells and so on. It is available in forms as powder, shots, cubes and so on.
Vanadium is with melting point 3380℃, so it forms stable carbide compound(V4C3) with C elements in steels. V could refining the structure and crystalline grains of steel and increase coarsening temperature of crystalline grains. It enhances the property of steel significantly. Vanadium strengthen intensity, tenacity, resistance to corrosion, abrasive resistance and bearing impact load.
Minor Metals
Minor Metal Oxides
Minor Metal Alloys
Magnesium Scandium Alloy | Gold Silver Germanium | Gold Germanium Nickel | Gold Beryllium | AuGeNiCu11-2-0.6 | Gold Silicon | Gold Indium | Gold Antimony |
Gold Palladium | Gold Platinum | Gold Arsenic | Silver Copper Indium | Silver Palladium | Silver Copper Lithium | Silver Copper Vanadium | AlSiSrLa |
Copper Indium | Indium Tin | Indium Silver | Indium Lead Silver | Lead Tin Bismuth | Lead Indium Silver | Tin Bismuth | Silver Coated Copper |