Tungsten A Strategic Metal

In 1913，the British mining interests had no use for tungsten considered it a nuisance because it made tin extraction more difficult. But as World War І began, military and economic experts assured each other and the world that Germany could not keep up its industrial pace，and that its ammunition supply would be exhausted in six months．But it was soon discovered that Germany was increasing its munitions output，even exceeding that of the Allies．Germany's top-secret then was the use of tungsten high-speed steel in cutting tools．And the ore，the British found out later，had been coming from their own Cornwall mines.

With this impetus，due to demands of military might，world production of tungsten had leaped by 1916 to 23,104 short tons of concentrates. Only nine years before it had been6135 short tons-an amount in those days considered surplus.

Tungsten was establish as a strategic military item in the munitions race of World War І，but the military requirements for this metal became astronomical during World War Ⅱ with the introduction by the Germanys of a tungsten carbide armor-piercing shell.

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