Rep. John Moolenaar (R-Mich.) has sent a letter to Canada-based mining company Almonty Industries to inquire about a critical metal essential for U.S. defense technology that the United States relies on China to obtain.
Moolenaar, chairman of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), announced on June 2 that he had sent a letter to Almonty’s chairman, Lewis Black, over the company’s Sangdong tungsten mine in South Korea.
Tungsten is unique for its exceptionally high resistance to heat, thanks to it having the highest melting point of all known metals. Tungsten is exceptional in terms of hardness, especially in its compound form, tungsten carbide, which is nearly as hard as diamond. As a result, it is used in both military and aerospace systems, such as armor-piercing projectiles, missile nozzles, and hypersonic vehicles, as well as semiconductors and electric vehicle batteries….