3 Jun
2001
3 Jun
'01
1:27 a.m.
At 10:59 PM 6/2/01 -0500, Eric Dittman wrote:
The boards had several tantalum capacitors.
I thought I'd recently heard a news story that
claimed that 80% of the world's supply comes from
a single mine in the Australian outback, but that
may only be a slight exaggeration:
http://www.cellular.co.za/technologies/phones/tantalum.htm
which leads to tantalum ore poaching:
http://www.ebnews.com/digest/story/OEG20010427S0086
Perhaps a richer source of ore is old computers.
- John