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Mineral Investor Guidebook

(Eastern Ukrainian Shield)

Ed.: B. I. Malyuk; S. V. Goshovkiy; O. B. Bobrov; O. I. Levchenko; Yu. M. Veklych; O. B. Volkov; A. A. Dzidzinskiy; M. V. Geichenko; Ministry of Environment Protection of Ukraine; State Geological Survey; Ukrainian State Geological Research Institute

2008. 102 pages, 98 figures, 21x29cm, 360 g
Language: English

ISBN 978-3-510-65419-2, paperback, price: 29.90 €

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Keywords

ferrous metal • rare metal • trrace metal • radioactive

Contents

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By various estimates, including those of US Geological Survey, the mineral wealth of Ukraine is high enough. Production from mineral raw materials accounted for 40% of Ukraine’s GDP in 2000, and about 60% of the country’s budget revenues. Despite the significance of mineral raw materials to the country’s economy, Government support for the geological sector has greatly decreased since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. At the time of the breakup, 41 geological organizations that employed 58,760 persons were state supported; by 2003, the number of state-supported organizations had decreased to 11 and the number of workers to 9,839. The level of Government funding for geologic work had been reduced by more than 70%. Owing to the lack of financial support, the country was experiencing a shortage of needed specialists and was lacking up-to-date technology and equipment.
Whether the country mineral resources are foreseen to be developed extensively essentially depends on the non-government investments involved. The own experience of Ukraine and examples from other CIS countries strongly suggest for the best country interests in the foreign direct investments provided by the senior and junior mining and exploration companies of various origin including mainly those listed on the major world stock exchanges. However, it becomes more and more evident that mineral resources FDI advantages and efficiency do strongly depend not only on the general investment environment in Ukraine but also considerably rely on the knowledge base available for the foreign investors. Besides the common regulation restrictions and data scarcity, in case of Ukraine and other CIS countries the data access is thought to be essentially complicated to the foreign companies simply due to the language barrier. Specifically, most of geological information in Ukraine is being recorded in Ukrainian with minor amount of Russian items from the past years. Thus, the persistent FDI provision requires facilitating the normal documents filed in various geological entities of Ukraine to be presented in English at least.
While a number of geological data being permanently staked in the country research, prospecting, exploration and mining units concerns the mineral details and their Ukrainian-English translation could be the matter of particular negotiations between the data holders and the interested applicants, some principal items seem to be of primary importance and definitely should be issued in English and accessible to the broad community of the foreign investors providing the backbone assets for their subsequent mineral activities. Apparently, these items are likely to be comprehensive enough to make possible robust foreign investor’s decision whether foreseen mineral applications in Ukraine would provide advantages compared to investing elsewhere. The mineral FDI provision therefore requires multi-purpose English-fashion geological information which integrates general mineral patterns and highlights specific mineral targets at the same time. In our mind, these conditions can be maintained on the ground of the State Geological Map of Ukraine in the scale 1:200 000.

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Abbreviations used 4
Introduction 5
1. General Description 9
1.1. Brief area outline 10
1.2. Geological background 15
2. Minerals 34
2.1. Overview 36
2.2. Mineral Targets 38
2.2.1. Ferrous metals 38
2.2.1.1. Iron ores 38
2.2.1.2. Manganese ores 45
2.2.2. Non-ferrous and base metals 47
2.2.2.1. Aluminium 47
2.2.2.2. Copper 48
2.2.2.3. Nickel, cobalt, copper 50
2.2.2.4. Lead, zinc 53
2.2.2.5. Titanium 54
2.T.3. Rare metals 58
2.2.3.1. Arsenic 58
2.2.3.2. Beryllium 58
2.2.3.3. Bismuth 59
2.2.3.4. Lithium, rubidium, cesium 59
2.2.3.5. Molybdenum 60
2.2.3.6. Niobium, tantalum, lithium 62
2.2.3.7. Niobium, tantalum 63
2.2.3.8. Rubidium, niobium, tantalum 66
2.2.3.9. Rubidium, cesium 66
2.2.3.10. Rubidium 67
2.2.3.11. Scandium 67
2.2.3.12. Tungsten 68
2.2.3.13. Zirconium 69
2.2.4. Rare earth metals 72
2.2.5. Trace metals 75
2.2.6. Precious metals 76
2.2.6.1. Gold 76
2.2.6.2. Silver 80
2.2.7. Radioactive metals 82
2.2.7.1. Uranium 82
2.2.7.2. Uranium, thorium 84
3. Outlook 85
References 91
Annexes 92
Annex 1. The Statement on StateGeolMap-200 92
Annex 2. Mineral Target Index 94