Ukraine minerals

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For anyone interested in finding about more regarding the minerals in Ukraine, I urge them to read the following article:

How Ukraine’s 2.5-bn-year-old rock deposit became central to helping stop Russia

Ukraine has deposits containing 22 of 34 critical minerals identified by the European Union as essential for energy security. This positions Ukraine among the world’s most resource-rich nations. Lithium is used in electronics the world over: electric vehicles, wind turbines, solar panels and energy storage systems all require lithium, cobalt and rare earth elements which Ukraine has in abundance. The price of lithium has surged from US$1,500 (£1,164) per ton in the 1990s to around $20,000 per ton in recent years. Demand is expected to increase nearly 40-fold by 2040.

Apart from lithium, Ukraine has significant deposits of rutile, iron ore, titanium, manganese ore, uranium, plus deposits of rare earth elements, including neodymium and dysprosium.

 

 

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The US will not hinder Ukraine’s obligations related to its European Union accession process in the upcoming US-Ukraine mineral deal, according to a 'Memorandum of Intent' seen by Euronews.

According to the one-page document, signed by Ukraine's first deputy prime minister Yulia Svyrydenko and US Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent on Thursday evening, a key round of negotiations is set to take place in Washington between 21 and 26 April.

“The United States respects Ukraine's intention to avoid conflicts in the drafting of the agreement with Ukraine's obligations under European Union accession or agreements with international financial institutions and other official creditors,” the document says. 

Leaked: US won’t block Ukraine’s EU path in mineral deal talks

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All this talk and posturing about REE, rare earth elements by the politicians in Ukraine, Greenland etc is just nonsense

 

Where are the geology reports? where are the surface rock samples? where are the drill cores with the percentages of elements present and of what variety?

If you can build a mine within 10 years, after drilling thousands of cores to determine the structure you have fast tracked a mine.

I am invested in the largest Ionic Clay rare earth discovery on earth, and its been 3 years of drilling and lab analisis to begin to map out the resource, and they've only mapped out 20% of their claim 

Samples of the rare earth have to be sent to the lab to find out what particular elements are present. And how easy they are to seperate.

There are about 17 elements that fall under the heading of rare earths, some are extremely valuable others not.

There are different baskets of material MERO and TERO which do they have?

 

Now you have a rare earth discovery, you've managed to get a condensed product at the mine

Next is the refining or separating the jumble of elements down to the one you need.

China does 90% of the rare earth refining because it is a nasty environmental mess

The us has one mine at Mountain Pass and it sends it to China for processing.

 

This is all just flavour of the day political posturing