Lukashenko ordered to find rare earth metals in Belarus

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko on Tuesday, March 4, instructed the government to search for rare earth metals in the republic.

"They say that we have rare earth minerals in our landfills. <...> This is the future. We need to dig, we need to look at what we have in the ground," Lukashenko said during the adoption of personnel decisions and setting key tasks for the government, his words are quoted by БелТА.

The Head of State stressed that this is a topical issue, and recalled that the President USA Donald Trump is involved in the issue of mining rare earth metals, but Belarusian officials have not yet dealt with this. Lukashenko stressed that this type of minerals is not found in large quantities, and it is necessary to find out how many of them there are in the republic.

In addition, the president instructed to explore other important resources, such as oil, gas and useful chemical elements.

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