China’s antimony export controls rattle the tungsten industry

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China’s latest export controls have caused some in the critical minerals industry to worry that Beijing will leverage its global supply chain dominance in unprecedented ways.
“Three months ago, there’s [no] way anyone would have thought they would have done this. It’s quite confrontational in that regard,” said Lewis Black, CEO of Canada-based Almonty Industries.
China will put export controls on tungsten by the end of the year, if not in the next month or two, Christopher Ecclestone, principal and mining strategist at Hallgarten & Company, predicted.

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