UKRAINE, Jul 1 — Ukraine has declassified information about certain minerals, including critical minerals, said Svitlana Hrynchuk, the Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine, to Interfax news agency.

“The secrecy has been canceled, and we are now managing all bureaucratic procedures so that we can work with investors and businesses without this barrier,” Hrynchuk said at the Forum of State and Business: From Dialogue to Partnership.

Information about gold, platinum, diamonds, lithium, titanium, palladium, zirconium, iridium, and other minerals becomes public. Uranium remains the only mineral with information about its reserves and extraction classified.

Hrynchuk noted that, with the help of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, work to digitize geological information, much of which is in paper form, is underway. For now, the Ministry has digitized 6,000 geological reports.

The Ministry has also prepared lists of minerals sold through auctions or production sharing agreements.

Ukraine’s government is also working with geological services from Europe and America to improve the quality and access to geological information in Ukraine. For example, a 3D model of one of the graphite deposits was developed with the French geological service.

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