[Ferro-Alloys.com]August 24, 2016 — Lewis Black, Chairman, President and CEO of Almonty Industries Inc. (TSXV: AII) in an interview with InvestorIntel Sr. Editor Fred Cowans discuss “the metal that very few know about, but that touches everybody’s lives — everyday.” In their discussion, Lewis explains that Almonty’s management team’s expertise lies in five generations of tungsten knowledge, their existing portfolio of global tungsten projects and Almonty’s plans regarding Sangdong Tungsten Mine, in South Korea, which has been described as their “crown jewel”.

Fred Cowans: I understand we found you in Europe. Europe, of course, is where quite a number of your properties are, Spain and Portugal. You’ve had a busy time this year. You’ve acquired quite a few assets and that’s the story, but I’d like to start, if I may, with talking about tungsten a bit and its main uses.

Lewis Black: Well, I would say that tungsten, the uses of it, date back into the turn of the nineteenth century, but essentially 50% of all tungsten is consumed in automobile and aerospace sectors. The car and the plane industries are doing well. There’s always a strong demand for tungsten. Basically I would say with tungsten it’s a metal that very few people really know about, but in fact touches everybody’s lives every day in the sense that it is in everything that you see around you. All manufacturing, anything that generates heat and friction will have a component of tungsten to protect the alloy that is being used to produce that product with tungsten. When you land on a plane, your braking systems, the turbines, when you manufacture the plane or the cars you need the inserts. If you drill for oil, gas, you mine, you need tungsten coated drill bits so various carbines that you use. If you remove tungsten from your life you would not see the same world around you because it is the key component, an irreplaceable key component for manufacturing in all heavy industry.

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