Key Points
- 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.
