This post was originally published on this site.COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Washington’s hostility towards Canada threatens its effort to reduce dependence on Chinese minerals, former U.S. sanctions official Edward Fishman said Monday. The United States has the money and political will to invest in mineral supplies but needs Canadian and Australian mining expertise to develop them, Fishman, a former Obama Administration official who left government in 2017, told the Mining Forum Americas in Colorado Springs. Working more closely with those allies would strengthen U.S. economic security, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) senior fellow said. “I think if we are...

This post was originally published on this site.Strategic Minerals (AIM: SML; USOTC: SMCDF) announced that the U.S. Department of War has invested $9.25m of funding in its wholly owned subsidiary Cornwall Resources Limited (CRL) to accelerate the Redmoor tungsten-copper-tin project in Cornwall, UK, through all feasibility studies, and towards a final investment decision for mining.   Redmoor is Europe’s highest-grade, undeveloped tungsten resource, and one of the highest-grade tungsten projects globally, the company said.  Tungsten is a strong, dense metal with the highest melting point of any element, making it essential for superalloys to increase hardness and heat resistance for turbine blades,...