The company secured up to $1.6 billion from Washington last year to extract tungsten in Kazakhstan, the news outlet has said<\/p>\n
A shell company backed by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump has agreed to a merger with a mining group that secured up to $1.6 billion from the US government in 2025 to facilitate the extraction of tungsten in Kazakhstan, the Financial Times has reported.
\nThe agreement between Skyline Builders group, in which US President Donald Trump\u2019s sons hold a stake, and Cove Kaz Capital group was signed on Thursday. The newly-formed entity will trade on Nasdaq as Kaz Resources, according to a statement.
\nCove Kaz currently controls 70% of the Northern Katpar and Upper Kairakty tungsten deposits in central Kazakhstan, believed to be one of the largest in the world. Last year, the federally-funded US Export-Import Bank and the Development Finance Corporation committed to invest heavily in the development of both projects.
\nThe statement didn\u2019t mention Trump\u2019s sons, but the FT reported on Friday, citing informed sources, that they bought into Skyline last August via a special purpose vehicle run by a subsidiary of Dominari Securities. The size of their investment was not disclosed, but they increased it by $24 million in October.<\/p>\n
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The paper stressed that \u201cthere is no suggestion that Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump knew that Cove was on the cusp of securing a contract from their father\u2019s US administration when they made their initial investments in Skyline\u2026 or that they influenced the awarding of the contract.\u201d
\nAmerican Ventures, of which Dominari is a member, said that Donald Trump Jr. \u201chas no operational involvement in the company\u201d and \u201cdoes not interface with the federal government on behalf of any company he invests in.\u201d Eric Trump didn\u2019t respond to a request for comment from the FT.
\nThe Democrats have repeatedly sounded the alarm over potential conflicts of interest arising from the investments by Trump\u2019s family members in companies that have secured lucrative government contracts. The president\u2019s kin made more than $1 billion in pre-tax profits last year by getting involved in cryptocurrency, AI, drones and critical minerals projects, according to FT.<\/p>\n
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Due to its high heat resistance and hardness, tungsten is essential in the production of aerospace and defense \u200cequipment. The US currently has no active mines producing the metal and is highly dependent on China for its deliveries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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