Mineral exploration made important progress in .coal, uranium, iron, gold, silver, copper, nickel, zinc, lead, antimony, tungsten, molybdenum, vanadium, kainite and characteristic non-metal.
Cyanopyridine,intermediate of rimifon, was synthesized from 4-picoline using vanadium oxide as a catalyst in a fixed-bed reactor, reached 99% conversion of 4-picoline, 88% selectivity and 87.
A mineral called fingerite, for instance, forms from copper, oxygen, and vanadium -- an element that’s relatively rare in minerals -- and it dissolves in water .