The head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, the president’s special representative for investment and economic cooperation with foreign countries, Kirill Dmitriev, said that Russia and the United States began a discussion about joint projects for rare-earth metals.
“Rare Earth metals are an important field for cooperation, and, of course, we began discussions about various rare -earth metals and projects in Russia,” Izvestia quoted the Izvestia official. According to the Russian assessment, a quarter of all reserves of rare -earth metals is concentrated in the country.
On February 24, Vladimir Putin held a meeting on the extraction of rare earth metals – against the backdrop of the US requirements to Ukraine, to convey to them a concession on the development of these resources. He offered the United States cooperation in the development of Russian deposits.