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Australia miner Tivan teams with Sumitomo on tungsten, other key minerals - Nikkei Asia

GNews: critical minerals·2026-11-12TradeP1: Resource SovereigntyP5: Strategic Decoupling
Why it matters

A concrete partnership between Australian miner Tivan and Japan's Sumitomo Corporation on tungsten and other critical minerals directly strengthens Australia's Resource Sovereignty pillar and reduces strategic dependence on China for inputs to defence electronics and semiconductors. This deepens decoupling (Pillar 5) by locking in allied supply chains for minerals essential to both Australian and Japanese defence industrial bases, and indirectly hardens the Quad's resilience against Chinese economic coercion in a Taiwan scenario.

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This development bears on 2 of the eight pillars of Australian preparedness — the overall picture right now is 5/100.

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