The US Trump administration has set its sights on Ukraine's vast mineral resources, and proposed a deal: to secure a portion of Ukraine's rare earths in exchange for US support in the war against the ...

It takes lithium and cobalt to build the batteries that power electric vehicles and e-bikes, nickel and rare earth elements ...

Scattered across the United States, hundreds of thousands of abandoned mines scar the earth, posing a safety hazard to ...

The EU has drawn up a priority list of 47 projects for the mining and processing of critical raw materials, which local ...

A potential deal giving America some rights to rare earths that may be buried in Ukraine has been part of negotiations over ...

Mapped: Putin’s attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure from nuclear to hydroelectric - The estimated damages caused by ...

America’s decades-old commitment to protect Persian Gulf oil offers some perspective as Ukraine and the US close in on a ...

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is allowing Ukraine to get ripped off by the United States to avoid being completely looted by ...

Russia has occupied at least two Ukrainian lithium deposits during the war — one in Donetsk and another in the Zaporizhzhia region in the south-east. So if the US and Ukraine do sign a minerals ...

Map: Metal production by region of Ukraine, by monetary value per capita, in 2007. Dark orange was over £40/year per person.

Mining investment firm TechMet, which counts the US government as one of its largest investors, is looking to develop a major lithium project in central Ukraine. TechMet chief executive Brian ...

“We're not going to be sitting in a room drawing lines on a map but just ... nickel and lithium, are considered critical to the U.S. economy and national defense. Ukraine has large deposits ...