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This Mine Predicts Major Wars. It's Opening Again

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-opinion-australia-tungsten-mine-us-war-defense-china/
31•mooreds•2h ago

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thisisauserid•50m ago
Dolphin tungsten mine in Australia.
lightedman•50m ago
Not only is it opening up but several other large scale projects are already being considered in the USA, including one in Atolia, California that I have been privileged enough to personally visit.

Watch the markets for the metals most used in wartime. That tells you pretty quickly when conflict is near.

jgilias•16m ago
I wonder if there’s path dependence there. It _seems_ like just because you build up lots of “defence” tech that doesn’t necessarily mean you _have_ to use it? Or does it? I wonder what happened with those markets during the Cold War.
edoceo•2m ago
Maybe it's also for USA to rebuild supply? That is, if you believe the "US spent too many missiles in Iran" stories.
throw0101d•45m ago
Bloomberg's Odd Lots interivew on this with the author, "The Tungsten Market Is Warning of an Upcoming War":

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xLxM-TzBPY

* https://omny.fm/shows/odd-lots/the-tungsten-market-is-warnin...

* https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-tungsten-market-is...

Ccecil•24m ago
A company local makes mining trucks [1].

At one event I was at I spoke with someone who was tied into the company and they said that when wars happen their business picks up because copper mining starts back up. War apparently needs a lot of copper too. I never looked into it to verify but it seemed like an interesting bit of data.

[1] https://gfworldwide.com/

zuzululu•15m ago
Tungsten is mostly used in artillery, tank shells, it will take some time to ramp up which makes me think the timing is peculiar along with the happenings in Europe.
nphardon•11m ago
If you look at antiwar.com, we seem to be in the throes of World War.

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