The Future Is Built with Boring Stuff

The Future Is Built with Boring Stuff

Investors love flashy stories… Artificial intelligence. Robotics. Hypersonic weapons. Space travel. Advanced semiconductors. Those are the industries that dominate headlines, attract billions of dollars, and send investors scrambling to find the next big winner. But...
Don’t Wait for China to Ban Tungsten

Don’t Wait for China to Ban Tungsten

Sometimes the most important warning isn’t what China puts on an export-control list; it’s what happens around it… Last week, Reuters reported that some Chinese rare-earth suppliers have simply stopped shipping certain materials to American customers. Not because...
America Could Grind to a Halt Without This Metal

America Could Grind to a Halt Without This Metal

Imagine waking up tomorrow to learn that America can no longer get the tungsten it needs… Maybe it’s an export restriction. Maybe it’s a war. Maybe shipping lanes close. Or maybe another country simply decides it would rather keep one of the world’s...
The Metal That Went from Curse to Weapon

The Metal That Went from Curse to Weapon

There was a time when miners hated tungsten… They didn’t know what it was. They only knew that when a certain dark, unusually heavy mineral showed up alongside the tin they were trying to process, something went wrong. The tin valuable tin they were trying to extract...
America Just Found a $152 Billion Deposit

America Just Found a $152 Billion Deposit

Sometimes a mineral discovery is bigger than a mining story. And this may be one of those times… Deep beneath Nevada’s Railroad Valley, a privately held American company called 3 Proton Lithium, or 3PL, says it’s identified what could be the largest tungsten deposit...