(16 Feb 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kirovohrad region, Ukraine – 12 February 2025
1. Wide of mining area, where overhead diggers collect raw mineral sands containing ilmenite
2. Various of digger collecting ore ilmenite and emptying it on piles on the side
3. Truck taking away the ore for further processing
4. Wide of mining area showing mine shaft with different layers of soil
5. Various of excavator feeding ore into containment pit where the minerals are separated with water
6. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Andrii Oparniev, Head engineer Velta Mine:
"Dump trucks from the quarry remove the ore sand and store it in the ore warehouse. Under the support of the pushing equipment, forklift, and bulldozer, ore sands are fed to the bowl of the ‘slaughterhouse’, where with the help of hydro monitors, they are eroded, and the pulp is fed through the pipeline to the gravity site for further processing and selection."
7. Water pumps hitting the sand to separate the ore
8. Worker operating water pumps
9. Close up of ore ilmenite filtered through metal-lined floors
10. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Andrii Oparniev, Head engineer Velta Mine:
"Logistics, that is, transportation of the commodity concentrate to the place of transportation to the ports. There are certain difficulties, including the rise in the price of logistics.
SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Andrii Oparniev, Head engineer Velta Mine:
"This is partly due to damage to ports after shelling. Also in this area, there is destruction and there are delays and certain issues on ships."
11. Various of mine separation area where ore is separated from waste and positioned on conveyor belts and sent to melting furnace
ASSOCIATED PRESS
London, United Kingdom – 14 February 2025
12. SOUNDBITE: (Ukrainian) Ksenia Orynchak, Director of the National Association of Extractive Industries of Ukraine:
“If we can conclude this agreement, this agreement will bring our country at least investments to grow the economy and, as a maximum, protectionism, protection of our territories in the future. Because we understand that those investors, and it doesn’t matter now whether it is America, Britain or the European Union, but we understand that the Americans have more opportunities, more resources, and they are more influential, to be honest, and they will be able to protect the territories with their investments, build factories or plants that will be located in our country. And in the future, this can develop into a pretty good geopolitical alliance so that we don’t have to shed any more blood on the territory of Ukraine.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kirovohrad region, Ukraine – 12 February 2025
13. Various of plant where ore ilmenite goes through further spirals water processing for refining
14. Various of worker controlling ore conveyor belt
15. Various of ore sands being processed
16. Wide plant
17. Various of high temperature furnace and refined ilmenite
ASSOCIATED PRESS
London, United Kingdom – 14 February 2025
18. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Ksenia Orynchak, Director of the National Association of Extractive Industries of Ukraine:
"First of all, you need to invest in additional exploration, in fact, geological exploration work. But before making these investments, I would advise American investors to talk to the Ukrainian government to lower the entry threshold for geological exploration, because today we have electronic bidding even in areas where there are projected resources. I believe, and so does the expert community, that this is not right. In fact, we are ‘selling a pig in a poke.’
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