The Bulletin 2015 - 2023

As well as all the regular features, this edition of the Bulletin includes:

•       President's Welcome
•       The Anders Gustaf Ekeberg Tantalum Prize: a retrospective
•       Flow and stock estimation of tantalum for sustainable supply chain
•       The Ekeberg Prize 2023 shortlisted abstracts
•       64th General Assembly: Technical Programme Abstracts

As well as all the regular features, this edition of the Bulletin includes:

•       President's Welcome
•       The Anders Gustaf Ekeberg Tantalum Prize: a retrospective
•       The History of CERN
•       The Ekeberg Prize 2022 shortlisted abstracts
•       63rd General Assembly: Technical Programme Abstracts

Bulletin No.187 - October 2021

• The 62nd General Assembly

• Mr Ian Margerison joins the T.I.C. team

• The Ekeberg Prize 2021: Winner

• Cutting of tantalum: Why it is so difficult and what can be done about it

• Editor’s farewell

Bulletin No.186 - July 2021

As well as the regular features, this edition includes:

• Steel producers respond to demand for high performance bridge steels with niobium

• 62nd General Assembly: Technical Programme Abstracts

• The Anders Gustaf Ekeberg Tantalum Prize: a retrospective

• Tantalum and niobium patent update

• The Ekeberg Prize 2021: shortlisted abstracts

Bulletin No.185 - April 2021

As well as the regular features, this edition includes:

• The A.G. Ekeberg Tantalum Prize 2021: CALL FOR PAPERS

• Difficulties in tantalum raw materials transport, and potential solutions

• Postscript: Action points from the IAEA Technical Meeting on Denials of Shipment

• EU and UK Conflict Minerals Regulations

• Interview: Rashad Abelson, OECD legal expert

• Next generation niobium-bearing reinforcing bar steels for construction of resilient buildings and infrastructure

Bulletin No.184 - January 2021

As well as the regular features, this edition includes:

• The T.I.C.’s 61st General Assembly

• Changes to the US National Defense Authorization Act   

• A fresh examination of NORM regulations

• The Anders Gustaf Ekeberg Tantalum Prize: The Panel of Experts 2021

• Tantalum capacitors in 5G infrastructure  

• The 2020 Critical Raw Materials list for the EU

• A century of Critical Raw Materials and the US  

• The T.I.C. annual statistics presentation

Bulletin No.183 - October 2020

As well as the regular features, this edition includes:

• The Anders Gustaf Ekeberg Tantalum Prize: Winner 2020

• Tantalum recycling by solvent extraction: chloride is better than fluoride

• Interview: Mickaël Daudin, Pact Program Manager for the ITSCI Programme

• Charles Hatchett’s London

• TARANTULA: Recovery of W, Nb and Ta occurring as by-products in mining and processing waste streams

• Tantalum (Ta) and niobium (Nb) containing alloy powders for application in additive manufacturing

Bulletin No.182 - July 2020

As well as the regular features, this edition includes:

• The Anders Gustaf Ekeberg Tantalum Prize: Shortlist

• Upgrading CERN with niobium-tin magnets

• 61st General Assembly: Technical Programme Abstracts

• Interview: Mr Tiberio Cabianca, Public Health England

• ITSCI: a decade of success

• A view on the impact of Covid-19 on the mining sector

• EPRM launches “Due Diligence Hub” website

Bulletin No.181 - April 2020

As well as the regular features, this edition includes:

•     Tantalum capacitors in critical medical applications

•     Beautiful metal: oxide films on niobium and tantalum

•     Tantalum polymer capacitors capable of high temperature operation

•     NORM transport: time to increase the exemption level

•     Recycling e-waste: a report from ICPREM-2020

•     Tantalum: a market overview by DERA

Bulletin No.180 - January 2020

As well as the regular features, this edition includes:

• A report from the T.I.C.’s 60th General Assembly and 2019 AGM

• NORM transport: time to increase the exemption level

• The T.I.C. annual statistics presentation and data

• Tantalum and niobium in additive manufacturing: a report from FORMNEXT

• Niobium in fuel cells

• Making art using only tantalum, niobium and oxygen

Bulletin No.179 - October 2019

As well as the regular features, this edition includes:

• Ekeberg Prize: Winner 2019

• Reliable supply of tantalum: how tantalum supply chain risk has fallen since 2000

• A kilo of tantalum in my pocket

• ITSCI in focus: lifting the lid on finances

• Technology research on preparation of new type texture tantalum blank

• The grave of Charles Hatchett gets renovated by the T.I.C.

Bulletin No.178 - July 2019

As well as the regular features, this edition includes:

• Maglev trains: very fast niobium

• The Ekeberg Prize: Shortlist 2019

• Charles Hatchett and the origin of columbium

• Is pure tantalum (Ta) radioactive?

• The Tarantula Project

• 60th General Assembly: Technical Abstracts

• An open letter on synthetic concentrates

Bulletin No.177 - April 2019

As well as the regular features, this edition includes:

• Brazil: a large country with large tantalum and niobium reserves

• The minerals of tantalum and niobium

• FeNb and FeV in steel

• Niobium capacitors: an overview

• Intellectual property update

• The Anders Gustaf Ekeberg Tantalum Prize - call for publications

Bulletin No.176 - January 2019

As well as the regular features, this edition includes:

• The 59th General Assembly and 2018 AGM report

• Photos from the 59th General Assembly

• T.I.C. annual statistics presentation with augmented trade statistics

• Tantalum capacitors: current trends and potential future

• Intellectual property update

• 60th General Assembly: Call for papers:

Bulletin No. 175 - October 2018

As well as the regular features, this edition includes:

• In the footsteps of Anders Gustaf Ekeberg: who he was and how he discovered tantalum

• Temperature stability assessment of GaN power amplifiers with matching tantalum capacitors

• Ultra-low profile tantalum capacitors

• Ekeberg Prize: Winner 2018

• Intellectual property update

Bulletin No.174 - July 2018

As well as the regular features, this edition includes:

• ITER: niobium superconductors show the way  

• 59th General Assembly: Technical Programme Abstracts

• Field-portable X-ray fluorescence (FPXRF)

• The re-birth of tantalum in Western Australia

• A.G. Ekeberg Tantalum Prize: Shortlist 2018

• Intellectual property update

Bulletin No.173 - April 2018

As well as the regular features, this edition includes:

• The A.G. Ekeberg Tantalum Prize: panel of experts and call for publications

• Venezuela: a new columbite-tantalite frontier?

• Wire + Arc Additive Manufacturing

• A semiconductor-superconductor built on niobium nitride

• REACH 10-year review published

• Intellectual property update

Bulletin No.172 - January 2018

As well as the regular features, this edition includes:

• The Anders Gustaf Ekeberg Tantalum Prize

• 58th General Assembly and 2017 AGM report

• Tantalum efficiency wins the markets (KEMET Electronics)

• The changing face of tantalum (Roskill)

• 59th General Assembly: CALL FOR PAPERS (open to members and non-members)

Bulletin No.171 - October 2017

As well as the regular features, this edition includes:

• How tantalum atoms are formed by stars exploding 

• The 2017 Charles Hatchett Award winners

• Tantalum and niobium IP report

• Development of polymer tantalum capacitors with high reliability and high rated voltage

• CFSI’s revised Tin and Tantalum Standard

• The EU’s 2017 Critical Raw Materials (CRM) list

• iTSCi in focus: the Governance Committee
   

Bulletin No.170 - July 2017

As well as the regular features, this edition includes:

• Technical programme abstracts of the Fifty-eighth General Assembly  

• MRI: saving lives with niobium

• A financial summary of the iTSCi Programme

• The Charles Hatchett Award

• NORM exemption levels and conversion factors explained

• A postcard from Rwanda

Bulletin No.169 - April 2017

• A downstream customer's view on conflict-free minerals

• Results from the recent statistics questionnaire

• A study of niobium superconductor disks

• EU's new conflict mineral law

• A letter from Vancouver, Canada

Bulletin No.168 - January 2017

• 57th General Assembly

• A special report on transporting naturally occurring radioactive materials (NORM)

• Tantalum potential supply from the lithium industry

• How to report an incident in the iTSCi Programme

• Tantalum in coins, medals and jewellery

Bulletin No.167 - October 2016

• A special report on tantalum and niobium in superalloys

• An introduction to David Knudson, our new Technical Officer

• A retrospective by Bill Millman who is stepping down from the Executive Committee after 21 years

• News about CFSI's definitions for CFSP audits

• Letter from Rwanda

• Applications and properties of Metalysis FFC-produced spherical tantalum powder

Bulletin No.166 - July 2016

• EU agreement on conflict mineral legislation     

• A visual guide to ASM mining of tantalite

• China’s initiative on tackling conflict minerals

• A letter from the T.I.C. Statistics Sub-team

• Miniaturization of chip tantalum capacitors

• 57th General Assembly: Technical Abstracts

• Dale Gwinnutt reflects on his time on the Executive Committee.

Bulletin No.165 - April 2016

• A weekend in Toulouse, France (destination for 57th General Assembly)

• Sponsorship opportunities at the 57th General Assembly

• A new collection process for T.I.C. statistics

• Interview with Ulric Schwela, T.I.C. Technical Officer

• Update on potential EU mineral legislation      

• Antitrust: T.I.C.’s proposed policy

• "Hermetically sealed low ESR, high reliability tantalum capacitors" by AVX

Bulletin No.164 - January 2016

• The T.I.C. welcomes Roland Chavasse, Director to the T.I.C.

• Richard Burt dispels myths around ‘coltan’.

• The T.I.C.’s new website revealed.

• Fifty-seventh General Assembly notice.

• Fifty-sixth General Assembly report.

• Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative: only one part of due diligence.

• Statistics and more statistics: what are they & where do they come from?

Bulletin No.163 - September 2015

Bulletin No.162 - June 2015

Bulletin No.161 - March 2015