As some parties try to bring the Russian-Ukrainian
"special operation" to a halt, the media at different
levels points out some factors that they consider
important in the process.
All of a sudden, Ukraine, once known as the
breadbasket of Europe, is now the repository of some
of the most critical minerals on earth.
" However, there’s another important factor at play in
Trump’s actions:
the intensifying global competition
over critical minerals. Trump wants
to secure access to
Ukraine’s vast reserves of these minerals, even if
it
means breaking with the US’ traditional allies in the
European Union. . .
According to some reports, Ukraine has deposits of 22
of the 34 minerals identified as critical by the EU.
These include:
- lithium and cobalt, used in rechargeable battery production
- scandium, used for aerospace industry components
- tantalum, used for electronic equipment
- titanium, used in the aerospace, medical, automotive and marine industries
- nickel ore, manganese, beryllium, hafnium, magnesium, zirconium and
others, used in the aerospace, defence and nuclear industries
If
Ukraine has vast reserves of critical minerals,
how much mining activity has taken place before or
since Ukraine was given independence from the
failing USSR? Furthermore, the business of mining
is really all about moving unwanted dirt to gain
access to ore. Often the cost of moving that
overburden and recovering valuable minerals is
more costly than the value of the minerals
themselves. The valuable minerals aren't valuable
enough to justify the cost of their extraction.
According to the BBC: "We will get technologies
that our mining industry lacks so much," Ms
Suprun explained. "We will get capital. That means
more jobs, tax
payments. We'll receive revenue
from the development of mineral
deposits."
Since Ukraine is impoverished, the finances to
enable the above will come from who? As usual,
jobs are a critical feature.
Lithium and cobalt are currently the key raw
materials for EV batteries. It's no sure thing that
EVs are ever going to become the back bone of
personal transportation in the foreseeable future.
There's also a logical issue in the situation. Ukraine
land surface is .00405 percent of the world's surface
area and .0611 percent of the surface area of the
US.
There's no denying that mineral resources aren't
distributed evenly across the planet. But does it
seem likely that a single relatively small spot in
eastern Europe possesses a huge percentage of
recoverable minerals that can't be found in other
locations?
A matter of real concern in the Ukrainian critical
minerals is that it appears that rather than grant
them
membership in NATO, erecting a US financed
mining infrastructure in the country means that the
US, and probably only the US, will protect the
country and the American investments there. Is
this a position that the US really wants to be in?

Source: Ukrainian Geological Survey
The very detailed blotches are meant to show valuable mineral deposits.
This is a scam akin to Florida swampland. The
media
haven't bothered to look into the actual proven
deposits of any particular minerals in Ukraine. It's
in the interest of both Zelensky and Trump to push
this bovine dung. Neither will be around to see if it
pans out.