Amanda Stutt

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Rick Mills - Ahead of the Herd | May 30, 2025 | 2:02 pm Markets Copper Gold Silver  A crisis is unfolding in the bond market that equity investors may not be aware of. Long-term government bond yields are rising across major economies as governments struggle to contain mounting debt burdens. Last week, Japan’s 30-year bond yield ran to an all-time high of 3.4%. The 40-year also hit a record 3.6%.

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Tungsten prices on the European spot market hit the highest level in 12 years this month, driven by China tightening its grip on critical mineral exports. Tungsten is a smaller market, with an estimated value of around $5 billion in 2023. But the industries that depend on it are getting exponentially bigger, and it is the material of choice for a  key defense application – what the military calls penetrators – high-density, armour-piercing projectiles.

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Magrathea, a California-based start-up developing technology to produce carbon neutral light metal from seawater, has launched its next-generation magnesium chloride electrolyzer to split magnesium salts to make magnesium metal at its pilot facility in Oakland. The launch is a component of its plans to establish the first new commercial-scale magnesium electrolyzer in the United States in the past 50 years, the US Department of Defense-backed company said.

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Longtime mining industry executive W. R. “Bob” Dengler, an engineer who built Canadian startup Dynatec into one of the country’s biggest mine contractors and operators, has died. He was 84. Dengler passed away peacefully on May 15 in Aurora, Ont., his family said in an emailed statement. No cause of death was disclosed. “Bob Dengler is undoubtedly a mining legend,” former Iamgold CEO Stephen Letwin wrote in a 2018 letter of recommendation for an award.

1 week ago | mining.com | Amanda Stutt

American Tungsten Corp. (CSE:TUNG) (OTCQB:DEMRF) announced Tuesday it has commenced construction and building work to support exploration and mine planning at its Ima tungsten project in Idaho.  The rehabilitation and exploratory review work will enable definition drilling and bulk sampling to support the formation of its mine plan, it said.  The Ima Mine is a past producing underground tungsten mine situated on 22 patented claims located in east central Idaho.