Resourceinvestor.com reported on The Economics and Politics of Tungsten Mining Investing in North America :

Although a lot more companies now than then are developing new, or trying to re-open existing old, tungsten properties in North America, the regulatory and political climate hasn't changed much. What has changed, for the worse, is our dependence in the U.S. on imported tungsten ore and finished goods; new tungsten ore production has today become, for all intents and purposes, the exclusive provenance of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC).

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