China’s communist government moved last week to ban exports of three key energy minerals - gallium, germanium, and antimony - to the United States as tensions between the two world powers ...

But the Western militaries have a major problem. This push for new military hardware requires a crucial critical metal called Antimony of which the U.S. produces exactly nothing. The reliance on ...

In August, the Chinese Commerce Ministry said it would restrict exports of antimony, which is used in a wide range of products from batteries to weapons, and impose tighter controls on exports of ...