"China controls approximately 80 percent of global antimony production and refining"
China supplies roughly 80 percent of global antimony (mine production and refining) per USGS data, and in August 2024 announced export licensing on antimony and its compounds effective 15 September 2024.
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This is a human-established fact. It holds within INTERNATIONAL as enacted by US Geological Survey (Mineral Commodity Summaries); China Ministry of Commerce.
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Published USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries consistently report China as the dominant global producer of antimony ores and refined metal, with recent annual mine production around 40,000 tonnes out of a global total near 83,000 tonnes, and an even higher share of metallurgical refining capacity. Russia and Tajikistan are the next-largest producers. In August 2024 the Chinese Ministry of Commerce announced export licensing for antimony, antimony ores and antimony trioxide effective 15 September 2024 — a materially restrictive measure for downstream defence and flame-retardant markets outside China.
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