Before the invasion of three years ago, the European Union had indicated Ukraine as a possible key partner for the supply of 20 critical raw materials out of 33 cataloged by Brussels. The country has 5 percent of world mineral resources starting with the iron deposits, but above all it has “rare lands” with strategic minerals such as lithium, white gold for batteries. The Ukrainian geological service maintains that the estimated reserves are between 500-700 thousand tons, a third of those known in the old continent.
A beautiful slice of the value of mining and energy wealth, around 12 thousand billion dollars, would be under control of the Russian occupiers, but the 60 for cents of the subsoil treasure is still found in the free territories of Ukraine. For this reason, American president Donald Trump asked Kiev an agreement on the exploitation of rare lands, crucial for the ecological transition, in exchange for the armaments already provided and future.
The mining chest known as “Ukrainian shield” extends for 250 thousand square kilometers between the Dnestr and bug river to the sea of Azov and the southern Donbass, the area of furious clashes. The criticism raw materials are aluminum, copper, nickel, lithium, Germanio, niobio, tantio, but also 2 percent of the world resources of Uranium. Ukraine is among the top ten nations in the world for ascertained reservations of titanium (7 percent of world production). A high resistance metal used in the aerospace, medical and automotive industry. The Zavalievsky deposit is one of the most important deposits of graphite known and not exploited in Europe, material for the charge of the batteries.
The invaded country is also the fifth producer of Gallio, used for semiconductors, LEDs and employed oriental Ukraine there are natural gas deposits.f.bil.
