🎇sparkles✨@lemy.lol to World News@quokk.au · 3 days agoAmerica has a tungsten problemwww.noleary.comexternal-linkmessage-square14linkfedilinkarrow-up132arrow-down10file-text
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Why does China produce >80% of the world’s tungsten? Why has there been zero domestic tungsten mining in the United States?
minus-squareFrowingFostek@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·3 days agoIdk too much about rare earth metals but I hear it really fucks up the land.
minus-square🎇sparkles✨@lemy.lolOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 days agoYes, it produces waste and changes the environment. But it is important for the military and national security. So it has to be accepted to a degree.
minus-squaregustofwind@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·3 days agoDoes it? Turns out you can just buy it from other places
minus-square🎇sparkles✨@lemy.lolOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 days ago… the largest producers: China, Vietnam, Russia and North-Korea. Not very dependable salesman.
minus-squaregustofwind@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·3 days 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/
Idk too much about rare earth metals but I hear it really fucks up the land.
Yes, it produces waste and changes the environment. But it is important for the military and national security. So it has to be accepted to a degree.
Does it? Turns out you can just buy it from other places
… 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/