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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    X: https://x.com/feneckconsult
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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

    1. 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!

    2. 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?

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