Ukraine's rich and varied natural resources

[cali]

Ukraine has extremely rich and complementary mineral resources in high concentrations and close proximity to each other. Rich iron ore reserves located in the vicinity of Kryvyy Rih, Kremenchuk, Bilozerka, Mariupol, and Kerch form the basis of Ukraine’s large iron-and-steel industry. One of the richest areas of manganese-bearing ores in the world is located near Nikopol. Bituminous and anthracite coal used for coke are mined in the Donets Basin. Energy for thermal power stations is obtained using the large reserves of brown coal found in the Dnieper River basin (north of Kryvyy Rih) and the bituminous coal deposits of the Lviv-Volyn basin. The coal mines of Ukraine are among the deepest in Europe. Many of them are considered dangerous because their depth contributes to increased levels of methane; methane-related explosions have killed numerous Ukrainian miners.

Ukraine also has important deposits of titanium ore, bauxite, nepheline (a source of soda), alunite (a source of potash), and mercury (cinnabar, or mercuric sulfide) ores. A large deposit of ozokerite (a natural paraffin wax) occurs near the city of Boryslav. Subcarpathia possesses potassium salt deposits, and both Subcarpathia and the Donets Basin have large deposits of rock salt. Some phosphorites as well as natural sulfur are found in Ukraine

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The exploitation of petroleum and natural gas in Ukraine necessitated the creation of an extensive pipeline transport system. One of the first natural gas pipelines in the region opened in the 1920s, linking Dashava (in Transcarpathia) to Lviv and then to Kiev. As a result of the Soviet Union’s commitment to major gas exporting in the late 1960s and early ’70s, two trunk pipelines were laid across Ukraine to bring gas to eastern and western Europe from Siberia and Orenburg in Russia. Petroleum from the Dolyna oil field in western Ukraine is piped some 40 miles (65 km) to a refinery at Drohobych, and oil from fields in eastern Ukraine is piped to a refinery in Kremenchuk. Subsequently, larger petroleum trunk lines were added (some 700 miles [1,100 km]) to supply petroleum from western Siberia to refineries at Lysychansk, Kremenchuk, Kherson, and Odessa, as well as a 420-mile (675-km) segment of the Druzhba (“Friendship”) pipeline, which crosses western Ukraine to supply Siberian oil to other European countries. The pipelines connecting the Siberian oil and gas fields with Europe are a major economic asset for Ukraine, as their importance to Russia gives Ukraine leverage in negotiations over oil and gas imports. However, disputes between Ukraine and Russia have in the past led the latter to cut off its supply temporarily—negatively affecting Ukraine as well as the European Union, which depends on gas and oil from these pipelines.

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http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/612921/Ukraine/30105/Resources-and-power

[msanthrope]

1. Poor, poor Vlady. We'll let him keep Comrade Eddie as his consolation prize. nt

[cali]

2. you are a living testament to the simple brilliant truth of Santayana's

comment.

[msanthrope]

3. Oh, cali--you'd posted two threads on the Ukraine with virtually no response. You should at least

be grateful that I stopped by!

And the fact that you are quoting one of my favorite pragmatists is a step in the right philosophical direction.

[cali]

4. lol. funny stuff.

[msanthrope]

5. I'm here all week! Try the veal! Tip your waiter! nt

[dipsydoodle]

6. disputes between Ukraine and Russia have in the past led the latter to cut off its supply.......

That's what happens to most people when they don't pay the gas bill or syphon it off from reserve tanks.

[Pretzel_Warrior]

7. Can you include one of those cool maps from grade school

With pictures of iron, lumber, livestock, bauxite, and produce to show leading natural resources for all countries? Maybe include list of natural resources of U.S., Russia, Canada, Mexico, China, Australia?

You are a fountain of knowledge and innuendo, Cali!

[Johonny]

8. They are apparently rich in pretty young blonde girls just waiting to marry me also

If I am to believe the advertisements facebook always thinks I am interested in