China's mineral resources reserves steadily increasing

12 found more than 900 mineral land, "Twelve-Five" to delineate a number of distant scenic newspaper Beijing January 15 (reporter Yu Me) After 12 years, a new round of land and resource survey successfully concluded, and achieved fruitful results, in order to improve the domestic mineral resources to ensure the ability to make an important contribution. At present, China's exploration efforts have been increasing, the 2010 non-oil and gas exploration investment 30.3 billion, ranked seventh in the world, social and enterprise input enthusiasm.　　This is the reporter learned from the National Geological Survey Working Conference. It is understood that the survey of land and resources has led to a significant increase in China's important solid mineral resources. Over the past 12 years, more than 900 new minerals have been discovered. A new number of resources: Iron ore 5 billion tons, copper 38 million tons, 450 million tons of bauxite, potash 460 million tons, gold 1800 tons, lead and zinc 83 million tons. The reserves of iron, copper, aluminum, potash and gold increased by 41%, 28%, 39%, 88% and 53% respectively at the end of 1999, under increasing mining intensity. With the support of Geological Survey work, the total amount of new and important mineral resources in the past 10 years accounted for almost half of the 50. In the case of rapid growth of resource consumption, the passive situation that reserves consumption of retained resources is larger than growth is reversed, which ensures the steady growth of resource reserves, basically stabilizes the overall external dependence of important minerals, and makes important contribution to improve the domestic mineral resources guarantee capacity. Initially formed in Tibet, northwest Yunnan, the eastern Tianshan copper polymetallic, qimantage tagatose tungsten tin polymetallic, Lop Nur potash, large field gold and other ten resource bases.　　Over the past 12 years, the large survey has also conducted a scientific investigation and evaluation of the potential of groundwater resources, the prospect of groundwater resources in severe water shortage areas and the geological environment in key areas, and preliminarily established a monitoring and control system for geological hazards. Shaoshi, Minister of Land and Resources, said that in the past 10 years, China's mineral resources consumption, rapid growth, has become the world's coal, steel, alumina, copper, cement consumption of the largest countries, the external dependence of the rising. Deputy Minister of Land and Resources, China Geological Survey Bureau Director Wang introduced, "Twelve-Five" period, China will be a group of prospecting prospects, the basic completion of the focus into the mining area with the prospect of mineral prospecting, the cumulative delineation of the target area of 1500, the new discovery of 500 large and medium-sized mineral resources, the cumulative formation of 10 large resource base.