Antimony

Mineral resources include silver, gold, uranium, antimony, tungsten, and coal.

Antimony is one of several elements for which the chemical symbol, Sb, is derived from Latin rather than its modern name.

The element antimony is mainly used in flame retardants.

Antimony compounds are the main therapy against all leishmaniasis, including the often fatal version called kala-azar that attacks organs.

Deep in the Salmon River Mountains, an Idaho mining company, Perpetua Resources, is proposing a vast open-pit gold mine that would also produce 115 million pounds of antimony — an element that may be critical to manufacturing the high-capacity liquid-metal batteries of the future.

In quality synergistic additives in a composition use oxide antimonies.