Abstract

Summary The demand for many resources in world is increasing significantly due to their growing importance for indus-trial and technological development. Graphite, especially, high quality graphite can be used in many industrial applications including refractory, batteries, fuel cells, metallurgy ect. Innovation techniques will cause an increas-ing of graphite demand and the global market value of graphite is expected to growth. Ukraine has one of the larg-est reserves of natural graphite in the world. Main graphite deposits of Ukraine are related to Precambrian meta-morphic rocks of the Ukrainian Shield. According to the State balance of Ukraine, there are six graphite deposits one of them currently under development by Ltd. Zavallia graphite. The mining profitability is ensured by graphite quality, location, lithological and mineralogical characteristics of deposits. The graphite mining, ore processing, geological situation and total resources of the most important deposits as well as general analysis of Ukrainian graphite province and global market overview are given in the paper.

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