President Vladimir Putin proposed a joint exploration of Russia’s rare earth metal deposits, which he claims are larger than Ukraine’s, as part of a future economic deal with the US ...

Kremlin Says Russia Has Lots of Rare Earth Metals That the US Needs and Is Open to Cooperation ... lot of work to be done to normalise relations between Moscow and Washington before any economic ...

Russia says it is open for economic cooperation with the United States, including on energy and mining rare earth minerals.

The comments also follow discussions between the US and Ukraine ... to work with American companies to mine rare earth mineral deposits in both Russia, and parts of Russian-occupied Ukraine ...