(26 Feb 2025)
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ARCHIVE: Kirovohrad region, Ukraine – 12 February 2025
1. Wide of mining area, where overhead diggers collect raw mineral sands containing ilmenite
2. Various of digger collecting ore ilmenite and emptying it on piles on the side
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Geneva – 26 February 2025
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Tom Moerenhout, adjunct associate professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs: ++PARTIALLY COVERED++
"The US-Ukraine critical minerals deal is interesting because it’s the first big deal of the Trump administration with respect to Ukraine, right? I do believe that to certain extent it has been a bit exaggerated. Right. I think Ukraine has a lot of interesting hydrocarbon resources (oil, gas, coal), right? On the critical minerals side of the equation, however, they have resources, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that those can be extracted profitably. So there was a lot of talk about lithium and rare earths. And actually those deposits, the information we have about them is from the Soviet era. We don’t really know how reliable that is. We don’t know how interesting those deposits are."
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ARCHIVE: Kirovohrad region, Ukraine – 12 February 2025
4. Various of excavator feeding ore into containment pit where the minerals are separated with water
5. Water pumps hitting the sand to separate the ore
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Geneva – 26 February 2025
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Tom Moerenhout, adjunct associate professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs:
"And in addition to that, some of the most interesting rare earth deposits are actually currently on Russian occupied territory."
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ARCHIVE: Kirovohrad region, Ukraine – 12 February 2025
7. Various of high temperature furnace and refined ilmenite
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Geneva – 26 February 2025
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Tom Moerenhout, adjunct associate professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs: ++PARTIALLY COVERED++
"Critical minerals are generally used in three big applications if you wish: Digital economies, so semiconductors, stuff like that. Energy, clean energy technologies. And then number three is defense applications. They are important for all of those three. But the biggest growth is mostly in the clean energy technology applications. Just because you need more the scale of of the demand from those energy applications is big."
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ARCHIVE: Paxton, Illinois – 9 May 2024
9. Various of wind turbines operating
10. Wide drone of wind turbine and town of Paxton in background
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Geneva – 26 February 2025
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Tom Moerenhout, adjunct associate professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs:
"To the credit of the first Trump administration, they have always put critical minerals as a very important policy priority, because they knew they were so heavily reliant on China. And that doesn’t necessarily change today. There might be, you know, less wind turbines or the shift to electric vehicles might be slower, but that shift to electric vehicles is happening regardless. And the Trump administration knows that they need to prepare their automakers for that. And that also means having more access to critical minerals."
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ARCHIVE: New York – 6 April 2023
12. Moving shot shows new electric Ram pickup truck
13. Hand opens door to charging port
14. Interior of truck
15. Front storage space
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