Rua Gold Highlights Antimony's Critical Role in Global Supply Chains

April 9, 2025

Why This Matters

Resource company focused on antimony, a critical metal for defense, energy storage, and electrification

As global attention shifts to critical minerals, Rua Gold is focusing on one of the lesser-known but increasingly vital metals: antimony. Over the past 18 months, antimony prices have surged fivefold, driven by demand across sectors including defense, battery technology, and electric vehicles. Used as a hardener in everything from shell casings to Kevlar, and gaining value for its role in grid storage and EV batteries, antimony is becoming essential to global supply chain security. Rua Gold has already built mines in the past and is preparing to do it again, now in a market where critical metal demand is more urgent than ever.

Full Transcript

Antimony is really important and everyone's talking about it all of a sudden because it's spot price has gone up five x in the last 18 months. Antimony used as a hardener and so it's used in munitions. It's used in all shell casings Kevlar things like that. But it's also part of the EV revolution. We built mines before and that's what we're here to do again.