Congo, Democratic Republic of the
Cobaltite – Mineral collection of Brigham Young University Department of Geology, Provo, Utah. Photograph by Andrew Silver. No BYU index, (pen for scale). Today, some cobalt is produced specifically from one of a number of metallic-lustered ores, such as cobaltite. The element is, however, more usually produced as a by-product of copper and nickel mining.
