Recently @USAntimony produced MIL-A-159D compliant antimony tri-sulfide for US Military for ordinance primers. However antimony’s usage is extremely broad, ranging from ammo to fire retardants to semiconductors. In classical world even used as makeup: https://t.co/m63Eh936oq
“A Survey of the World Antimony Situation” from 1969 by @CIA. Interesting parallels for today. In 1938 US was suddenly cut off from Chinese antimony due to trade war with Japan. Mexico made up the difference, hence $UAMY’s recent acquisitions in MX: https://t.co/D1IkHE0RyL