BY PHILIP BURGERT

February 10, 2012 • Reprints

CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- Markets for tantalum metals used primarily in electronics could face short supplies by as early as 2014 in part because of reduced Australian primary production and impending restrictions from the US Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform law aimed at curbing trade of illegal and artisanal produced minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo that are the source of the metal.

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