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IEEE Spectrum

Rare Earths Reality Check: Ukraine Doesn't Have Minable Deposits Experts
say proposed deal with U.S. makes no sense

When a seemingly routine Oval Office press conference degenerated into a
shouting match on 28 February, the world looked on in astonishment. That
is, except for actual experts in rare earths and other critical materials,
who understood all along that the proposed rCLdealrCY that motivated the press
conference was nonsensical and could only be viewed as political theater.

The meeting was supposed to announce an agreement under which Ukraine would
provide U.S. companies with access to critical minerals deposits in
exchange for the tens of billions of dollars in military aid already
provided by the U.S. government. According to the Center for Strategic and
International Studies, the agreement would have established rCLa
reconstruction investment fund with joint U.S. and Ukraine ownership.
Ukraine will contribute 50 percent of all revenues earned from the future
monetization of all Ukrainian government-owned natural resource assets into
the fund.rCY Ukraine has substantial reserves or deposits of lithium,
graphite, manganese, titanium, gallium, and nickel. However, in describing
the proposed deal, president Donald J. Trump and other principals quickly
zeroed in on the rare earths, for which the US has for years been spending
billions of dollars in an attempt to secure stable supplies.

. . .

To begin with, the contentious 28 February Oval Office meeting canrCOt be
understood without a crucial piece of context: there are no deposits of
rare-earth ore in Ukraine known to be minable in an economically viable
way. And that would be true even if full-scale warfare were not raging in
the countryrCOs east, where a great deal of its mineral resources are
concentrated.
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