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Cantor: Almonty "Moving Seamlessly" Into Production As Korean Tungsten Mine Becomes Western Lifeline Cantor Fitzgerald metals and mining analyst Matthew O'Keefe provided clients on Tuesday with an update on Almonty Industries, citing a corporate update from CEO Lewis Black. The miner's crown jewel tungsten mine in South Korea has begun shipping concentrate as the West's answer to conflict-free tungsten supply comes online, playing into a bigger theme we've outlined called "owning the bottlenecks." O'Keefe says the Sangdong mine has begun shipping concentrate, is moving toward 24/7 operations, and has about 4.6...

Qatar And Kuwait Restore 70% Of Pre-War Oil Exports Through Hormuz Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice.com, Qatar and Kuwait have managed to boost their crude oil exports from the Strait of Hormuz to 70% of pre-war levels as they followed the United Arab Emirates in shuttling oil through the chokepoint and using ship-to-ship transfers in the Gulf of Oman, anonymous traders told Bloomberg on Thursday. Before the Middle East conflict, Qatar and Kuwait collectively exported about 2 million barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil via the Strait of Hormuz. They don't...