partner of the shooter never existed, that it all was a made-up wild conspiracy. He also pushed the fake news that the shooter had politically donated to Rethugs, when that was an older (the shooter was a minor back when the donation was made), completely different person from the same area.
In this video he doesn't even spell coltan and tantalum correctly.
More to the point, the tantalum (which he focuses on) extracted from coltan ore (80% of the known coltan supply in the world is from the Democratic Republic of Congo, which was mentioned as one of the supply countries, although not the 80% part) is used mainly to make tantalum capacitors for electronic devices, plus refractive lenses, semiconductor circuits, etc.
The Vulcan Elements' loan from the Pentagon that Texas Paul is on about is for Vulcan to produce rare earth magnets (the two main types of RE magnets are neodymium and samarium–cobalt magnets, neither of which comes from coltan) for US domestic use.
He missed this: Niobium. Niobium does sometimes come from coltan, and is used in the making of the most common form of superconducting magnets, which are used in MRI instruments in hospitals, and in scientific equipment such as NMR spectrometers, mass spectrometers, fusion reactors and particle accelerators.
The superconducting portions of most current superconducting magnets are composed of wound niobium–titanium filaments. More expensive magnets can be made of wound niobium–tin filaments, which produce a far stronger magnet, but are extremely difficult to manufacture.
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