In Ukraine, for the first time in world geological practice, rather large (up to 50 microns) phases of metallic rhenium or its natural intermetallic compounds were discovered in the ultramafic rocks of the Kapitanivka Group.
Rhenium is an extremely rare scattered element with the lowest Clark (7 • 10-8) of all platinum and lanthanide elements. Until now, rhenium was known only as isomorphic impurities and was extracted in industrial quantities from other minerals (primarily from molybdenite).
In some cases, rhenium forms its own minerals, which therefore have no industrial value.
Rhenium - the metal of the future.
Its unique properties determine the main areas of application: radio electronics, electronic and vacuum industry, oil refining, aircraft construction (significant increase in engine life), instrument making, rocket and space technology, production of metal composites with unique physical and mechanical properties due to various percentage impurities.
Such alloys are high-tech (well-welded, very strong, yet plastic, and therefore retain their properties and shape in extreme operating conditions - high and ultra-high temperatures, pressure), used for the production of filaments with an increased resource, cathode heaters, thermocouples.
The demand for rhenium is unlimited. Today, its use is carried out in the volumes of extraction. According to experts, the demand for rhenium will only increase over time.
This direction includes:
-conducting geological and forecasting mapping of promising territories;
-conducting exploration and evaluation works on identified promising areas in order to assess their resource potential and determine (under favorable circumstances) the parameters of an industrial facility within its boundaries.
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