Re: ...but titanium is

[Ryan Cousineau]

In article
<ec0c7bdd-b307-4191-bf59-a04a21343a69@w7g2000hsa.googlegroups.com>,
BrandyCycles@gmail.com wrote:

> On May 23, 7:34 pm, Andre Jute <fiult...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > A bike may not be jewelry but titanium is -- several of my sports
> > watches are titanium. So there. -- AJ
>
> My watches are all carbon fiber. So there back.
>
> Pee Ess-- When I want to feel retro, I wear my steel watch. It is
> much slower than my carbon ones.

I have a titanium ring, which I occasionally wear as a high-performance
wedding band. The ring was a prize at a charity ride my club did. It's
quite a conversation piece when you hand it to other people and ask them
to guess what metal it is; Ti is light and lustrous and not usually
encountered in one's daily life.

--
Ryan Cousineau rcousine@gmail.com http://www.wiredcola.com/
"In other newsgroups, they killfile trolls."
"In rec.bicycles.racing, we coach them."

[Hank]

On May 24, 8:51 am, A Muzi <a...@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
> -snip ti-
>
> Hank wrote:
> > A buddy of mine and his wife wear titanium rings as their wedding
> > bands, because they wanted to boycott the African mining industry.
>
> Hmmm. So the Gulag is 'better'?
>

What gulag?

Half of it comes either from Australia or Canada. 20% comes from South
Africa. Less than 10% comes from former Soviet republics, mainly the
Ukraine. If you're buying wedding rings, it would be neither difficult
nor unimportant to vet the source of the material.

[* * Chas]

"nmp" <address@is.invalid> wrote in message
news:4837d57b$0$14342$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl...
> Hank wrote:
>
> > A buddy of mine and his wife wear titanium rings as their wedding
bands,
> > because they wanted to boycott the African mining industry.
>
> Where does titanium ore comes from?

The ground..... ;-)

Seriously, titanium is the 7th most abundant metal in the earth's crust.
Australia mines over 30% percent of the ore followed by South Africa and
Canada.

Chas.

[Tim McNamara]

In article <slrng3h4ck.p6d.john@vector.os2.dhs.org>,
John Thompson <john@vector.os2.dhs.org> wrote:

> On 2008-05-24, nmp <address@is.invalid> wrote:
>
> > Hank wrote:
> >
> >> A buddy of mine and his wife wear titanium rings as their wedding
> >> bands, because they wanted to boycott the African mining industry.
>
> > Where does titanium ore comes from?
>
> Russia, mostly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanium

According to Wikipedia:

Producer Thousands of tons % of total
Australia 1291.0 30.6
South Africa 850.0 20.1
Canada 767.0 18.2
Norway 382.9 9.1
Ukraine 357.0 8.5
Other countries 573.1 13.6
Total world 4221.0 100.1

[Mark]

Tim McNamara wrote:
> In article <slrng3h4ck.p6d.john@vector.os2.dhs.org>,
> John Thompson <john@vector.os2.dhs.org> wrote:
>
>> On 2008-05-24, nmp <address@is.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> Hank wrote:
>>>
>>>> A buddy of mine and his wife wear titanium rings as their wedding
>>>> bands, because they wanted to boycott the African mining industry.
>>> Where does titanium ore comes from?
>> Russia, mostly.

I think that might be the wrong question. From the Wikipedia article
Tim cited below, we see

"About 95% of titanium ore extracted
from the Earth is destined for refinement
into titanium dioxide (TiO2), an intensely
white permanent pigment used in paints,
paper, toothpaste, and plastics."

So "most ore extracted" might not be related in any useful way to "most
metal produced" (as opposed to oxide/pigment production).

I think the right question to ask is "Where are the large producers of
titanium /metal/?" Again, the same article points out that turning Ti
ore into metal is not a trivial job.

-Mark

>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanium
>
> According to Wikipedia:
>
> Producer Thousands of tons % of total
> Australia 1291.0 30.6
> South Africa 850.0 20.1
> Canada 767.0 18.2
> Norway 382.9 9.1
> Ukraine 357.0 8.5
> Other countries 573.1 13.6
> Total world 4221.0 100.1