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> What ever happened to scandium bike frames?

Ex-Union countries ran out of jet fighters to smelt for bicycle frames?

As I understand, there nowhere is in the world where Scandium is mined commercially now, and the world is still living off scandium oxide stashed by somebody very lucky right around USSR collapse?

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Canada is home to one the largest uranium mines in the world - Cigar Lake [i]. Wonder what they're doing with this byproduct?

[i] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cigar_Lake_Mine

I assume you didn't read the article? The answer is they are still using Scandium but just not branding it that way.

The article doesn't mention current mining methods (that I remember). Just "There aren't a lot of scandium importers and miners, and the few that exist charge a premium.".

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