Petro-Consulting LLC, which has recently obtained the special license to mine for lithium ore in Donetsk region with the reserves of 14 million tons, intends to find a major foreign partner to start developing the deposit in 2021.
Investments are estimated at $120 million and will be spent to construct the manufacturing infrastructure (electricity, gas, water supply, roads, etc.), a mine at least 500 meters deep and a processing factory.
According to the company CEO Igor Kolomiets, one of the leading international consulting companies has been tasked to created the feasibility study of the mine construction. (Ukrainian metal)