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President Donald Trump said he is interested in a deal to provide Ukraine further military assistance in exchange for rare earth minerals and other critical resources. The president’s remarks may be a roadmap for Ukraine to increase its military capacity while providing the United States with geopolitically important resources. A substantial amount of Ukraine’s rare earth riches lie in Russian-occupied territory. But Kyiv-controlled territories still hold valuable resources. Ukraine is one of the world’s largest potential sources of rare-earth deposits (see map here via the Ukrainian Geological Survey). It has many substances on the US Geological Survey’s list of critical minerals, including beryllium (aerospace, military, and nuclear applications), lithium (batteries, glass, and ceramics), and gallium (semiconductors). The country also has reserves of titanium, manganese, graphite, zirconium, nickel, apatite, and fluorite. With 20,000 deposits of 117 distinct minerals, the country could provide 5 percent of the world’s rare earths. สล็อต