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Since the Russians are now parked over our minerals, they can get bill for rent every month.

And then there's this:

$54M in Chinese gifts donated to UPenn, home of Biden Center

The WH might have created a new business line here- cornering the market for the world’s mineral rights.

For potential production that would pay royalites into the jointly managed fund, the Geological Survey in Ukraine might be a better place to look than anything written by NBC.

Properties on the market

Time for a second look at the Russian mineral offer.

Like I said...............

the actual knowledge you want me to acquire is that you think russia should pay to explore and give the us 50% for doing absolutely nothing?

Its a little late for that. Looks like the deal with Kiev is going to be signed this week.

If Fink and Co. try to do any mining there, they'll be sending us and Kiev royalty checks.

You might want to consider learning the difference between a mineral owner and a mining company.

Yeah, you’re right.

Good point. You may also want to brush up on how the money flows with mineral royalty payments.

Blackrock is getting paid.

How does Blackrock get paid?

Put it towards the debt!

Some might also be headed toward the new United States Sovereign Wealth Fund.

New regions are a part of Russia and not a part of Ukraine deal.

I wouldn't speculate on that until we see who offers what.

Noone with a brain is going to want to do a deal with RUSAL. We have aluminum smelters here in the U.S. that aren’t run by commies.

You might want to consider acquiring some actual knowledge on the subject.

If we pay for the exploration the Russians will charge $200/ft for the drilling, and mobilization and demobilization costs will include using a stolen Mi-8 to fly vodka, fuel and a core drill in and out of the taiga.

The offer from Kiev is 50% of minerals in the ground. If the Kremlin wants in they can pay for their own exploration in Russia and the once they're done we'll take 50% of whatever they think they found.

Ukraine is a sunk cost America needs to walk away from

Walking away from monthly checks ain't too bright after everything we've spent, Tovarishch.

exploration of the country's rare earth metals deposits

No, the Kremlin needs to offer us a 50% interest in all of their mineral ownership. They can pay for their own exploration.

2 million tons of aluminum to US market would be very good for the economy...everything is made of aluminum pretty much.

Wrong. 2 million tons produced by the Century Aluminum smelters in Kentucky would be very good for the economy.

Russia holds FAR MORE rare earth reserves than Ukraine

Says who?

Foreign partners welcome—including in new regions

Can't wait to see the offer for aluminum supply from RUSAL, which has none other than Marc Rich's Glencore as a foreign partner.

As for the "new regions", anyone mining there might end up owing us mineral royalties.

A horrific idea.

Actually, the effort involved in owning mineral rights involves getting paid per ton by the mine operators and counting the trucks to keep them honest.

This could get interesting if oligarch-owned mining companies start having their leases terminated.

Rankings can be OK as long as they aren't done by faculty. Or, for that matter, publication counts, which generally don't include whether the publications are relevant to anything.

The same goes for journal impact factors.