🎇sparkles✨@lemy.lol to World News@quokk.au · 2 months agoAmerica has a tungsten problemwww.noleary.comexternal-linkmessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up132file-text
arrow-up132external-linkAmerica has a tungsten problemwww.noleary.com🎇sparkles✨@lemy.lol to World News@quokk.au · 2 months agomessage-square14fedilinkfile-text
Why does China produce >80% of the world’s tungsten? Why has there been zero domestic tungsten mining in the United States?
minus-square🎇sparkles✨@lemy.lolOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months ago… the largest producers: China, Vietnam, Russia and North-Korea. Not very dependable salesman.
minus-squaregustofwind@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 months agoChina and Vietnam are plenty dependable and did you know America used to secretly acquire titanium from Russia during the Cold War? It’s pretty hard to stop globalism https://theaviationgeekclub.com/in-1960s-russia-sold-titanium-to-the-us-believing-they-needed-it-for-pizza-ovens-but-instead-they-used-it-to-build-the-sr-71-blackbird-mach-3-spy-plane/
… the largest producers: China, Vietnam, Russia and North-Korea. Not very dependable salesman.
China and Vietnam are plenty dependable and did you know America used to secretly acquire titanium from Russia during the Cold War?
It’s pretty hard to stop globalism
https://theaviationgeekclub.com/in-1960s-russia-sold-titanium-to-the-us-believing-they-needed-it-for-pizza-ovens-but-instead-they-used-it-to-build-the-sr-71-blackbird-mach-3-spy-plane/