As I said before, there is a serious lack of tungsten producers out of China/Russia/Vietnam. Most of the other sources are either small-scale, inactive, or artisanal/illegal mining in Rwanda, Congo, and Zimbabwe.
There is also some Kazakh and Uzbek production, but from a geopolitical point of view, these could as well be located in Russia-China as the a…
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