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To: MrEdd

The capability to go to space is the capability to rain tungsten rods down upon the earth.


Only Russia has enough tungsten to make that plan work, and if they stop exporting it, we cannot even make mil small arms bullets.


3 posted on 10/14/2018 8:34:18 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: PIF

Looks to me like it’s China: https://www.indexmundi.com/minerals/?product=tungsten&graph=production But I could be wrong.


14 posted on 10/14/2018 9:56:12 AM PDT by piytar (If it was not for double standards, the Democrats and the left would have NO standards.)
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To: PIF

China is actually the big fish at 79 million Mt per year.

As to reserves on the North American continent, Bishop area of California, Nahanni area of western Northwest Territories, Canada. Drakelands Mine(Hemerdon) has a resource estimate of over 318 thousand metric ton of tungsten. Throw in Spain, Vietnam, and Rwanda for measure.

Market appears saturated with cheap Tungsten at the moment. Could stockpile ingot now at less than $11USD pound. Works out to $250,000 per large RFG in raw material.

At 18km.sec impact velocity and 11 metric ton, could yield .43 kiloton equivalent directed in a narrow shock-cone rather than omnidirectional. Control through plasma MHD is key to retaining more energy than simple ballistic re-entry.


15 posted on 10/14/2018 10:00:34 AM PDT by Ozark Tom
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