Company Overview

Business Description

Sector
Materials
Industry
Metals & Mining
Headquarters
United Kingdom UK
Employees
27
IPO date
Oct 21, 2021

Tungsten West PLC is a mining company focused on restarting and operating the Hemerdon tungsten and tin project in Devon, England. Its business is to dig ore from the ground, process it into concentrate, and sell that output into industrial metal markets. The company’s core product is tungsten concentrate, with tin as a secondary by-product.

Its customers are mainly metal traders, processors, and manufacturers that need tungsten for hard-wearing industrial uses such as cutting tools, drilling equipment, alloys, and other applications where heat resistance and durability matter. Tungsten West makes money by selling the mineral concentrate it produces, rather than by making finished metal products. That puts the company near the start of the supply chain, where mining, crushing, and concentrating the ore are the key value-creating steps.

What makes its business different is that it is tied to a specific mine and a specific metal supply chain, rather than a broad portfolio of operations. Its fortunes depend on successfully bringing a single large tungsten project into steady production, meeting technical mining challenges, and converting ore into saleable concentrate. In that sense, it is more of a project-based resource company than a diversified miner.

Tungsten West PLC Investor Relations

Address
Hemerdon Mine, Drakelands, Plympton
Plymouth, Devon
United Kingdom

Business Segments

Tungsten mining

The company is developing and operating the Hemerdon mine in Devon to extract tungsten ore and process it into concentrate for sale. It also expects to recover by-products from the same ore body during processing.

Customers and revenue model

Management

Mr. Jeffery Arnold Court

CEO & Director

Biography unavailable

Mr. Alistair Milburn Macdonald Stobie

CFO & Executive Director

Biography unavailable

Ms. Lucy Clifford B.Sc.

Human Resource Director

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