• 19 August 2026
  • Market: Metals, Battery Materials, Minor Metals, Rare earth, Scrap

Covered in this episode

  • What the new US restrictions on tungsten scrap and battery black mass mean for exporters, recyclers and consumers
  • How the measures are affecting prices, trade flows and domestic processing capacity in the US
  • Why tungsten and battery materials are increasingly being treated as strategic resources
  • Whether similar export controls could be extended to other critical minerals and non-ferrous scrap streams
  • How the European Union is approaching scrap retention and critical raw material security
  • The long-term implications for recyclers, global trade and vertical integration across metals supply chains

 

Speakers

  •  Ronan Murphy, Editor, Argus Non-Ferrous Markets
  •  Reagan Patrowicz, Reporter, Critical Minerals Markets
  •  Cristina Belda, Associate Editor, Battery Materials
  •  Zach Schumacher, Editor, Argus Scrap Markets
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