Producers of ilmenite concentrate in Ukraine.
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Ukraine has significant deposits of titanium. Approved reserves are in the range of 7-12% of the world reserves (8.4 million tons: ilmenite – 5.9 million tons, rutile – 2.5 million tons, according to the State Geological Service of the USA). Their deposits are concentrated in the stripe: Zhytomyr – Kyiv – Cherkasy – Kirovograd – Dnepropetrovsk region.
In Ukraine, 78 deposits of different levels of exploration were discovered. But in fact, the mineral raw-material base of titanium in Ukraineconsists of 40 fields including one unique field, 13 large and 10 medium-sized fields. Nowadays titanium ores in Ukraine are developed only from placer deposits, accounting for 10% of all proven reserves.