22/2/2025–|Last update: 02/22/202505:42 am (Mecca time)
US President Donald Trump said on Friday that the United States was about to sign the rare mineral agreement with Ukraine, while Wall Street Journal cited sources that the United States and Ukraine had signed An agreement on minerals today on Saturday.
For his part, Ukrainian President Folodimir Zellinski said in a video message on a social network, that “Ukrainian and American teams work on a draft agreement between our governments, I hope to reach a fair conclusion”.
Zelinski had rejected the United States’s initial attempt to monopolize the vital minerals of his country as the first lot of military and economic aid continues to his war with Russia.
Three sources told Reuters News that the United States had suggested the acquisition of 50% of significant minerals in Ukraine, and Zelinski did not refuse to offer immediately, but he said he had not yet Content the security arrangements kyiv needed.
What are the rare soil elements?
Rare soil elements are a group of 17 decisive authors used in mobile phones, electric cars, missile and other electronics, industrial and energy applications.
Most rare soil elements are not particularly rare, but their extraction and purification are very difficult and destructive, which means that production is concentrated in very few places, especially in China.
What important minerals have Ukraine?
Accord to the British Guardian Newspaper, the President of the Association of Geology in Ukraine, Hannah Livinsva, Said in an article Released in 2022 that Her Country Contains About 5% of the World’s Mineral Resources, Although it covers only 0.4% from the surface of The globe, thanks to the geology complex, which includes all the main components of the earth’s crust.
According to Ukrainian private data, which has been reported by Reuters, Ukraine has the 22 deposits of the 34 minerals that have been determined as decisive by the European Union, including rare elements such as the Lanathanom, the serum , knot, repetition and etrium.
Before the outbreak of war with Russia in February 2022, Ukraine was a great supplier of Tangistan, as it produced around 7% of world production in 2019, according to the research of the European Commission, and said that It had 500,000 tonnes of lithium reserves, and five graphite production worldwide, it is a decisive component of nuclear power plants.
The Guardian report deals with the definition of metals and its strategic importance in general.
What important minerals?
BioMédia are the minerals and other raw materials necessary to produce products in high technology, in particular those linked to the transformation of green energy, but also on electronics and consumer infrastructure of artificial intelligence and weapons .
The rush to the fight against climate and the distance from fossil fuels led to a rush to minerals used in the energy transmission process such as cobalt, copper, lehium and nickel, which is useful in transport and construction of wind turbines. The metals themselves and others are also used to make mobile phones, artificial intelligence databases and weapons such as F-35 combat aircraft, which increases demand.
While the global economy and its technology were changing, the value of the co -booms increased and geopolitical competition has increased to reach it.
In 2022, the American Geological Survey published a list of 50 minerals, from aluminum to zirconium, which he considered to be “playing a major role in our national security, our economy, the development of renewable energies and the infrastructure “.
Among the prominent minerals included in the arsenic, used in semiconductors, and burelium, which is used as a plumbing worker in the space and defense, cobalt, legium and graphite industries, and he is decisive in the manufacture of batteries; Andium, which means that the screens respond to the touch with the fingers and the telelorium, which is used to generate solar energy.
In 2023, the International Energy Agency estimated that the transitional metal market in the energy field had reached 320 billion books in 2022, twice its value 5 years ago.
The agency indicates that if the two countries fully make their commitments related to clean energy and climate, it is expected that the request will double more than twice by 2030 and double 3 times by 2040.
What minerals are vital?
The term critical minerals is not as much a scientific term as it is a political term, and different countries have different lists of critical metals, according to their local and geopolitical objectives.
Why does Donald Trump want rare minerals in Ukraine?
There is a major reason behind Trump’s strong desire to obtain rare minerals in Ukraine, which is China, because China has become more than ever, which means that everywhere that rare minerals are extracted, an important point Stay in the supply chain.
China has the majority of the rare treatment capacity of minerals in the world and, according to the International Energy Agency, the share of refining China reaches about 35% for nickel, 50-70% for lehium and Cobalt and 90% for rare earth elements.