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14.03.26 - 01:09
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China Owns Canada′s Only Antimony Mine And Shuttered It In Critical Minerals Power Play (ZeroHedge)
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China Owns Canada's Only Antimony Mine And Shuttered It In Critical Minerals Power Play
Submitted by The Bureau's Sam Cooper (emphasis our own),
In the rugged interior of Newfoundland, an hour's drive west from the Canadian Forces Base in Gander, sits a dormant mine with profound implications for the nation's security and prosperity. Beaver Brook could be the largest North American producer of antimony — a critical mineral threaded through the entire spectrum of modern military hardware, from small arms and artillery shells to advanced missile seekers and night-vision goggles.
But China owns the mine and shut it down in early 2023 — one year before Beijing imposed export controls blocking antimony sales to U.S. military end users, driving prices from about US$5,900 per tonne to more than US$50,000.
Antimony forms in crystalline masses, often clustered in dark silver needles — nature's own suggestion of the gunmetal world it enters. It was little known before Washington recognized...
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13.03.26 - 18:51
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Wie Merz Kanada umwirbt – und Trump tadelt (Die Welt)
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In Norwegen besucht Friedrich Merz (CDU) eine Nato-Übung – doch bei seinem Besuch geht es auch um einen äußerst lukrativen Rüstungsdeal mit Kanada. Zudem macht der Kanzler seinen Unmut über Trumps neueste Russland-Volte deutlich....
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