China’s new rules are worrying insiders about how far Beijing...

China’s new rules are worrying insiders about how far Beijing will go on controlling critical metals

> 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.

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