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To: TobagoJack who wrote (54349)	9/4/2009 4:33:43 AM
From: energyplay	Respond to of 217746

According to some creditable sources, the US need large amounts of titanium for the SR-71 Blackbird recon aircraft. So the titanium was very quietly bought from Russia by dummy buyers... Titanium is hard to find concentrated, except in some beach sands. But it is not rare as a raw mineral. Processing is a bitch, the chemical bonds are strong. Sort of like 20 times worse than making aluminum. Check out the Kroll process - en.wikipedia.org many sources of Ti - indexmundi.com