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AU$4,434.25/ozAGEUR 1,790.10 / 1,967.90/kgCU$14,359.00/tAL$3,303.00/tNI$16,615.00/tZN$3,995.50/tPB$1,870.00/tSN$54,450.00/tAU$4,434.25/ozAGEUR 1,790.10 / 1,967.90/kgCU$14,359.00/tAL$3,303.00/tNI$16,615.00/tZN$3,995.50/tPB$1,870.00/tSN$54,450.00/t
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Europe’s Fear of Missing Out on Critical Minerals Is Crystallising Around a Forgotten Slovak Antimony Mine — and a Funding Gap No One Has Filled

Slovakia's Soviet-era Trojarova antimony deposit could supply a third of Europe's annual demand within two to three years, but the Canadian company developing it has found no European buyers or partners — a microcosm of the EU's wider failure to convert critical minerals ambition into funded industrial action.

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