Chinese export controls and rising military demand have sent tungsten prices soaring The US is backing domestic supply with defence funding and critical minerals finance ASX miners are rapidly ...

The Trump Administration is pursuing domestic and overseas sources of tungsten and other minerals critical to defense, aerospace, industry, and other uses. China controls more than 80% of global ...

The US-Kazakhstan deal to jointly explore and mine Kazakhstan’s untapped tungsten deposits came under the scanner last week after an investigation by The New York Times found that the deal was set to ...

Deep beneath a South Korean mountain, workers are reviving a mine that could challenge China’s grip on a metal vital to weapons, chips and industry. About 58 ...

The fortunes of a remote tungsten pit have risen and fallen through more than a century of conflicts. The critical mineral could now be a deterrent. Near a windswept beach off the southern coast of ...

First Daughter Ivanka Trump made headlines last month when she shared in an interview that she and Jared Kushner are hard at work building a $1.4 billion luxury resort on an uninhabited island off the ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The US government recently cut a massive mining deal for the critical mineral with ...

An agreement between the U.S. and Kazakhstan has given a group of American investors with ties to the president and the commerce secretary access to one of the world’s largest untapped reserves of ...

Tungsten is a dense, heat-resistant metal used in armor-piercing munitions, tank armor and missile components, but the US has no operating domestic mine producing it at scale. That gap has drawn ...