This description provides an overview of Australia's role as the world's largest producer of cobalt. Cobalt is a metal used in a variety of industries, including electronics, aerospace, and medical equipment. Australia's abundance of cobalt resources has enabled it to become the world's leading producer of
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Cobalt is a chemical element; it has symbol Co and atomic number 27. As with nickel, cobalt is found in the Earth's crust only in a chemically combined form, save for small deposits found in alloys of natural meteoric iron. The free element, produced by reductive smelting, is a hard, lustrous, somewhat brittle, gray metal.