John Feneck: Big Supply Crunch Coming to This Critical Mineral & Quality Gold Miners On Sale
Recorded on: June 23, 2026
Stijn Schmitz welcomes back John Feneck to the show. John Feneck is the CEO of Feneck Consulting Group. The discussion opens with the critical tungsten supply crunch, where China’s recent export restrictions, including cutting off Japan, highlight a severe imbalance. John notes that the U.S. has not produced tungsten since 2015, while 85% of global supply comes from China, Russia, and North Korea, posing risks for defense and technology. He sees potential in advanced North American projects, and mentions growing U.S. government interest in securing domestic production.
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Timestamps:
00:00:00 – Introduction
00:00:42 – Tungsten Market Overview
00:02:47 – Global Supply Challenges
00:04:06 – North American Tungsten Projects
00:07:15 – Defense Applications Importance
00:11:55 – Precious Metals Transition
00:13:50 – Silver Price Analysis
00:16:40 – Gold Market Outlook
00:19:00 – Mining Stock Investments
00:22:30 – Copper Sector Opportunities
00:25:00 – Attractive Producers?
00:31:10 – Rare Earths and Emerging Tech
00:35:05 – Feneck Consulting Group
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E-Mail: mailto:john.feneck@yahoo.com
Website/Newsletter: https://www.feneckconsulting.com/
Ticker’s Discussed:
Gold: Triumph Gold (TSXV:TIG, OTCQB:TIGCF), Norsemont Mining (NOG, NRRSF). Silver: Silverco Mining (TSXV:SICO, OTCQB:SICOF), Americas Gold & Silver (USA, USAS). Tungsten: Guardian Metal Resources (NYSE:GMTL, OTCQB:GMTLF), Western Star Resources (CSE:WSR, OTCQB:WSRIF), Spartan Metals (W, SPRMF). Copper: Power Metallic (PNPN, PNPNF), PTX Metals (TSXV:PTX, OTCQB:PANXF). Special Situations: First Tellurium (FTEL, FSTTF), Eastport Critical (EVI, EVIIF).
John Feneck is CEO of Feneck Consulting Group. He began his career in 1992 as an equity analyst for Merrill Lynch’s global allocation fund. From 1993 to 2019 he held senior executive roles at Merrill Lynch Funds (now BlackRock) and J.P. Morgan Chase Funds, where he ranked #1 in gross and net sales once at Merrill Lynch and three times at J.P. Morgan (among 40 peers).
Since 2017 he has contributed articles to Kitco—becoming a regular contributor in 2021—and has appeared as a featured guest. He’s delivered over 250 client seminars and webinars, spoken at 12 global commodities events, and in 2017 joined Sprott’s precious metals portfolio-management team. There he developed a proprietary methodology combining technical analysis with direct insights from company management, advocating a “go anywhere” strategy and a diversified portfolio of 25–50 resource stocks to navigate the sector’s volatility.
In September 2019 he founded Feneck Consulting Group, helping small- and mid-cap metals and mining companies raise brand awareness and advising high-net-worth advisors on market opportunities and risks. He holds Series 7, Series 63, CMFC and CIMA Level 1 certifications (though he is not a licensed advisor) and focuses on consulting. Based in Scottsdale, AZ, he’s a single dad to an 11-year-old daughter and spends weekends as a professional musician, athlete and traveler.
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10 Comments
Of course China isn't going to share a critical mineral with primarily military applications with its strategic adversaries.
Separately, I'm truly shocked that the US producers haven't just gotten carte blanche to do whatever they need to do to start pulling metal out of the ground. And heck yeah on Western Star, waiting for that to go nuts in the next few years.
Always enjoy listening to John- thanks to both!
Silver kinda stupid cheap that 50 is the support when you think of all the inflation since those previous 50 highs
a tungsten mine just re-opened on King Island Tasmania, history tells that it's opened every time there's been a war…
NOM not NOG….
Rich people quite often make a bad investments so being rich is not something that disqualifies you from being stupid
Love this channel
PureTungsten. In Korea, re-opening this summer
In North America, Who is on a path to refine Tungsten in volume on the near term? States that currently the refining capacity is near zero. If there's no refining capacity, it would seem like we have no market if we have no market why would anybody be mining tungsten? We are. caught in a catch 22, are we not?
John pumps different companies each time he does an interview. What happened to Aftermath and Silver47? Not this week's favorites?
Is it good to fight long term wars and invasions any where in the world including the middle east?. 🤔🤔