UNSW academic Dr Rahman Daiyan is available to comment on the deal agreed by Australia and USA to boost supplies of rare earths and other critical minerals.
Dr Daiyan is a senior lecturer and Scientia Fellow at UNSW's School of Minerals and Energy Resources Engineering.
He works on the bilateral supply chains for energy and resource exports.
Dr Daiyan can be contacted on [email protected].
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