[3] As of 2016, CBMM produces 90,000 tonnes of ferroniobium equivalent per year, which is slated to be increased to 150,000 tonnes/year.

[4] The Araxá ore deposit is large enough to supply the market demand for at least 200 years at current consumption rates.

[1] The company has its business headquarters, manufacturing facilities and technology center next to its mine in Araxá, and an office for sales and application technologies in São Paulo, as well as sales subsidiaries in the Pittsburgh area, Amsterdam, Beijing, Shanghai and Singapore, and warehouses in Russia, India, Sweden, South Korea, Spain, Italy, Canada and Japan.

[6] The company was founded in 1955 and since 1965 has been controlled by the Moreira Salles family, one of Brazil's wealthiest, former owners of the Unibanco banking conglomerate.

In 2011, a Chinese group acquired a 15% stake in CBMM, and a Japanese-South Korean consortium a further 15%.