MiningNewsBreaks – First Tellurium Corp. (CSE: FTEL) (OTC: FSTTF) Positioned as US Seeks to Secure Domestic Sources of Critical Metals
First Tellurium (CSE: FTEL) (OTC: FSTTF) today reported that ongoing trade tensions between the U.S. and China create implications for both tellurium and the production of cadmium-tellurium solar cells. According to the update, China produces approximately 60% of the world’s tellurium, most of which goes into cadmium-tellurium solar cells. Beijing has warned that it may ban the export of technology used to make solar panels, an industry for which China controls at least 75% of its global supply chain. With potentially dire repercussions for the West’s drive for solar energy deployment and as the trade war heats up, the U.S.…