Apple Corporation refused to use tungsten, tantalum and gold from Russian companies “at the request of the US government,” Kommersant reports, citing the company’s reports on the use of precious metals.
At the same time, in the document, Apple admits that it still receives tungsten from the Moliren plant in the Moscow region.
Reports from another major electronics maker, South Korea’s Samsung, showed the company uses tantalum, tungsten and gold from Hydrometallurg, Moliren, the Unech Refractory Metals Plant, the Solikamsk Magnesium Plant and other Russian companies.
The supply of tungsten concentrate to the United States from Russia in 2021 amounted to about $3 million in monetary terms, or about 3.5% of the market for this metal, calculated Sergey Grishunin, managing director of the qualification service of the NRA. .
The expert admits that Apple could replace supplies from Russia, for example, at the expense of China or India, which, in turn, can use Russian concentrates for metal production or buy additional metal in the Russian Federation.
Grishunin estimated that Russian companies supplied the US with about 200 tons of tungsten and less than 10 tons of gold a year.
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Source: RB
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