Amongst the military & related applications for Antimony are:

• Military primers
• Night vision goggles
• Nuclear power plant shields
• Lasers
• Military detonators
• Babbitt bearings for ships
• Camouflage
• Military smoke agents
• Large-capacity storage batteries

Supply has traditionally come from China, with South Africa and Australia – a far second and third place respectively. With China’s supplies declining and South Africa’s antimony mine shuttered, many countries are actively seeking to procure antimony stocks. As such antimony is one of only five metals to make it onto the Critical Metals Lists of all major countries, including Australia, Canada, China, Europe, Japan and the United States.

The United States has made several recent announcements that support domestic mining of critical minerals such as antimony. The nation’s objective is to secure and shorten supply chains while supporting projects that reduce environmental impacts. To this end, Molten Metals is extremely well positioned to support the United States on two of its most important policy files: reducing climate change and securing critical minerals for North American industry .