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Emrys

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45. Russia has plenty of "rare earth" minerals on its own legitimate territory

Sat Aug 16, 2025, 07:04 AM

Aug 16

The US currently has substantial untapped deposits, e.g. lithium in and around the Salton Sea in California.

What they both lack are processing facilities for what are very dirty extraction and refining processes, which China has. ("Rare earths" aren't particularly rare.)

My understanding was that Trump was going to offer Putin access to deposits in the east Ukrainian lands Russia's partially occupied, along with assistance in extracting and processing them, which would deserve a Nobel Prize for chutzpah.

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Russia has plenty of "rare earth" minerals on its own legitimate territory Emrys Aug 16 #45