Australia's Lynas has the rare earths the West needs and the skills to economically produce them, CEO Amanda Lacaze said, adding that tapping existing resources was much easier than developing anew in other countries.

And Ukraine is willing to cut some kind of deal. Kyiv has been courting American investment since 2023. According to the New York Times, that push included a Trump-Zelensky meeting and visits to the US from Ukrainian officials pitching deals for lithium and titanium. The US and Ukraine are still discussing some kind of metals-for-security deal.

Lynas Rare Earths (F:LYI), the largest rare earths producer outside China, remains a crucial supplier for the West, according to CEO Amanda Lacaze. She emphasized that leveraging Lynas existing resources is far

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

The Kremlin said on Tuesday that Russia had lots of rare earth metal deposits and that it was open to doing deals to develop them after President Vladimir Putin held out the possibility of such collaboration with the United States.