Uranium deposits

Uranium is a mineral of strategic importance, as it provides the production of more than 50 percent of the total electricity in Ukraine.

The need for Ukrainian nuclear power plants in natural uranium to reload operating power units is 2.5 thousand tons per year and, given the trends in the development of Ukraine's nuclear energy industry, may increase to 3.5 thousand tons per year.

The possibility of developing domestic uranium production is due to the presence of significant uranium ore deposits in Ukraine and the situation on the global market for natural uranium concentrate.

The main uranium deposits are concentrated within the Ukrainian Crystalline Shield, which has two main metallogenic regions - Kirovohrad (with the Central Ukrainian uranium ore region) and Prydniprovsk (with the Kryvyi Rih-Kremenchuk and West Ingulets metallogenic zones).

Within the Central Ukrainian uranium ore region, there are deposits with large reserves, the uranium ores of which are of average and poor quality.

The goal of developing uranium mining production is to fully satisfy the needs of Ukraine's nuclear power plants in natural uranium.

To this end, the following measures are envisaged to attract investments in the development of uranium mining and improve the structure of reserves:

-due to the higher uranium content - to search for rich mineralization in the Riphean structural unconformity zone and within volcano-tectonic depressions;

-due to lower production costs - to conduct searches, exploration, additional exploration and preparation for industrial development of deposits suitable for open-pit mining, underground leaching with the integration of drilling exploration of this type of deposits with experimental and industrial development;

-in order to reduce the impact on the environment, work should be carried out to improve the reagents used in leaching.

Uranium is strategically important for the state's economy, therefore, subsoil research as a means of scientific justification for the search and discovery of deposits, conducting regional research should ensure the economic and energy security of the state, the stability of the development of the national economy by attracting the necessary resources to the development of the industry, in particular by attracting the necessary resources for the operation of the state enterprise "Eastern Mining and Processing Plant", in particular, through its vertical integration with other state concerns, as well as attracting private business entities, including private investment in new projects for the extraction (industrial development) of uranium.