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Worth reading the second latest post on the TUN board

That was from a brief "tungsten" key word search, it continues on and will be of interest to many here.

I posted a couple of months ago about the critical minerals select committee recently. This post reminded me to have a look and the transcripts are available online. This is from page 4/15 of the last session:

"Dr Moore: There are a couple of things that I would add. First, in terms

of the actual commodities, we should have a particular mind to tungsten.

Tungsten is a very important commodity for defence, for hardening steel

and for a lot of armaments, but how much is produced is sometimes

shrouded in mystery. China is the dominant producer.

I flag this one because we have sizable tungsten and tin deposits in the

south-west of the UK that are coming online. We have a real potential

here to have some resilience for some of the strategic defence

commodities, but we do not have the processing capability. At the

moment, the offtake agreements would be to send them to China. There

are other places that they could go; that would need some strategic care.

The really important thing here is, if we produce tungsten domestically

and we export it as tungsten concentrate, that is at low value. If we then

import refined intermediate tungsten products at higher value, we have a

net loss of mineral wealth from the UK. That is something we need to

look at really carefully. Integration and where the processing happens is

really important."

https://committees.parliament.uk/event/27108/formal-meeting-oral-evidence-session/

Been lurking for a while after buying in at 1p

Just came across this upcoming select committee inquiry, hopefully SML is included in the discussion

https://committees.parliament.uk/call-for-evidence/3869/