Per Wiki:
The most common applications for metallic antimony are in alloys with lead and tin, which have improved properties for solders, bullets, and plain bearings. It improves the rigidity of lead-alloy plates in lead–acid batteries. Antimony trioxide is a prominent additive for halogen-containing flame retardants.
Antimony is used as a dopant in semiconductor devices.
I say let them cut it off. Now. Before we are actually at war with them.
Do it you Communist Chinese scumbags.
Uh huh.
I think China is planning on going to war to regain Taiwan sooner than later.
Chinese Communist Party Boss Xie Jing Blofeld.
“As you know, gentlemen, I have taken control of the entire world’s supply of... antimony.”
Well, well...
How does it feel to be entangled in mountains of onerous and conflicting regulations that prevent you from doing what needs to be done when it needs to be done?
Welcome to the real world you (the Congress) have created piece by piece over the past 25 years.
Hopefully a lesson will be learned here (but I won’t hold my breath).
The United States Geological Survey has released a new list of 50 mineral commodities critical to the U.S. economy and national security after an extensive multi-agency assessment [2022].
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Critical minerals FAQs [4 page pdf]
Rely on your primary global opponent to supply you with critical elements needed for your defense - yeah, sounds like something leftists would do.
Not if Trump is elected!
Red tape is just imagind depending on Who the President is!
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Military rearmament is just getting started — without enough critical minerals