INCREASING OF THE MINERAL AND RAW-MATERIAL BASE OF UKRAINE WITH NEW OBJECTS OF TITANIUM ORES

Abstract

Ukraine has the largest reserves of titanium in Europe. Over the past decades, in the country has also established and estimated significant amounts of promising resources of titanium ores. Now the resource potential is several times the reserves of industrial ores. The mineral base of titanium ores is represented by magmatic in bedrocks, residual and alluvial deposits. New objects with estimated resources are located within the western part of the Ukrainian Shield. These are the of titanium ores with apatite in mafic rocks and their crust of weathering. In the northeast of the Ukrainian Shield there are titanium deposits with zirconium. In the central part also found magmatic, residual and alluvial deposits. And, finally, prospective resources of complex vanadium-containing titanomagnetite ores of the central part of the Pokrovo-Kyriiv structure in the junction zone of Donbas and the Azov megablock were evaluated. In order to provide potential investors with information on the existence of investment objects with certain resources and geological and economic evaluation, the State Service of geology and subsoil of Ukraine launched an investment atlas of the subsoil user. In order to supplement the investment atlas with objective data on the resource potential of solid minerals of the country, it is necessary to create an information base of promising and forecasted resources of metallic and non-metallic minerals and, first of all, those related to strategic mineral raw materials. In connection with the rapidly growing demand for titanium-zirconium products in the world, there was a need to involve in the development of new objects of titanium ores with favorable economic indicators. The accumulated material on the state of the resource potential of titanium and titanium-zirconium ores provides an opportunity to supplement new content of investment information for subsurface user.