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moved to a license-based export regime for silver effective January 1, 2026, and published a whitelist of 44 firms authorised to export through 2026–27 . Reporting documents one clear outside benefici...
The reporting supplied does not contain verified, line-item annual figures (tonnes) for , , or ; corporate materials in the set discuss refinery roles, projects and aggregate metal throughput but stop...
is concentrated in a handful of countries and major industrial refiners, with , and large multinational commodity groups among the most consequential players outside ; precise installed tonnes‑per‑yea...
No open-source reporting reviewed identifies any that explicitly increased silver throughput or declared a quantified uplift in after January 2026; coverage points to and Korea Zinc’s overseas refiner...
Turning Venezuelan raw minerals into secure, domestic inputs for U.S. defense manufacturing would require tens of billions in upstream investment, new U.S.-based processing and smelting capacity, and ...
U.S. defense contractors seeking to reduce reliance on Venezuelan-sourced minerals have several realistic pathways: ally-shoring of upstream mines and downstream refining (notably Brazil and Canada), ...