Ukrainian Critical Minerals

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.