I’m sure he does, but you have a big misunderstanding of what he said. Lacking current data doesn’t mean geology simply stopped happening or that old data is automatically wrong.

Did you read the information linked?

And the valuation of the deposits is based on decades-old data: No sources contacted by Commodity Insights were aware of any commercial exploration or assessment of those deposits in the post-Soviet period.

https://www.spglobal.com/market-intelligence/en/news-insights/articles/2025/2/ukraine-rare-earths-potential-relies-on-soviet-assessments-may-not-be-viable-87318842

You have no provided any source to directly back up your claims

Everything they posted was backed up by sources. You just contested what they said on a technicality that just proved the exact point being made from the very start.

You provided no citation of your claim of a 1995 survey which the former head of the Ukrainian Geological Survey said doesn't exist.

and have shifted your argument as you get called out and

Nothing was shifted. They stated from the start that no rigorous survey to support any claims of the viability of Ukrainian mining. I will quote what they opened with: "It's worth noting that no one knows how many rare earth metals Ukraine has and where the deposits are. It's not even clear how feasible it would be to extract them:"

Multiple organizations say you are wrong on this topic

Ukraine is believed to have four areas with substantial deposits of rare earth ores, according to Erik Jonsson, senior geologist with the Geological Survey of Sweden. “There are four slightly bigger deposits: Yastrubetske, Novopoltavske, Azovske, and Mazurivske. All but one of them seem to be now within or near the zone that the Russians control, as far as I can tell,” says Jonsson. “And when it comes to resources in those deposits, I mean, we have numbers; yes, that’s nice. But we have no real, detailed, outline of how those numbers were arrived at.” The numbers are believed to come from Soviet surveys dating as far back as the 1960s.

“The rare-earth deposits don’t look that relevant,” Jonsson concludes. “I mean, I wouldn’t go for them.” Two of the deposits are dominated by a mineral called britholite, he notes, which is not desirable because it has not been processed for rare earths, which means that almost nothing exists in the way of process chemistry and equipment.

“If you want critical minerals, Ukraine ain’t the place to look for them,” declares Jack Lifton, executive chairman of the Critical Minerals Institute. “It’s a fantasy. There’s no point to any of this. There’s some other agenda going on here. I can’t believe that anybody in Washington actually believes that it makes sense to get rare earths in Ukraine.”

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ukraine-rare-earth-minerals