The poor development of rare metals in Russia is related to demand and low competition, as well as high cost technology and deposit depth.
The poor development of the production of rare and rare earth metal in Russia is due to a number of factors and reports of RIA Novosti. The main reasons are low domestic demand and high competition from foreign manufacturers offering products at lower prices.
Rosnedra noted that the extraction of metals such as lithium has not been conducted in Russia, but Tantalus, Niibi and Zirconium are exploited, mainly in the Arctic. Additional difficulties are related to the complex ingredients of the ore, requiring the introduction of complex and expensive technologies to extract rare metals.
In addition, many deposits are located in remote areas with insufficient infrastructure, which creates issues to work and requires significant investments. The future of the industry will depend on the development of high domestic industries, rare metal consumption and solutions for technological issues of raw material handling.
As the newspaper wrote, the Russians controlled Titan and Uranus deposits in Ukraine to threaten Western countries, which provided Kyiv to support.
In the Karaganda area of Kazakhstan, a rare earth metal field with 1 million tons has been discovered, including Ceria, Lantan, Neoshim and ITTRI.
The president of Kazakhstan Kasim-Zhomart Tokaev at a summit in Samarkand proposed creativity in Astana, a regional regional research center of rare earth metal, emphasizing the strategic significance of this initiative.