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Academician of the NAS of Ukraine Stella Shekhunova – about reserves and prospects of rare earth mineral extraction in Ukraine

12.02.2025

Journalists from “TSN” spoke with the director of the Institute of Geological Sciences of the NAS of Ukraine, academician of the NAS of Ukraine Stella Shekhunova and asked:

Can Ukraine really provide such rare minerals to the USA? How well explored and where are the unique minerals “hidden”? What are the difficulties of extraction and what special technologies are necessary for this? Could the issue of mineral resources have been key to Russia’s attack on Ukraine? Why does Moscow know about all our deposits? Why should the development of the mineral resource base of strategic minerals be among the strategic directions for the post-war recovery of the country?

Answers to these and other questions – in the FULL VERSION OF THE INTERVIEW

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