The latest report shows that China last year's copper, lead, zinc and other mineral reserves increased significantly, and newly discovered 132 mining areas.
According to Peng Bai News, the 2023 China International Mining Conference opened on Thursday (October 26) in Tianjin. At the meeting, the Ministry of Natural Resources of China released the China Mineral Resources Report (2023).
Reports show that nearly 40 % of the mineral reserves in China rose last year, and various mineral reserves such as copper, lead, zinc, nickel, cobalt, and lithium increased significantly, and newly discovered mineral origin 132.
The report also shows that China has achieved dual growth in quality survey investment in oil and gas and non -oil and gas minerals last year, and important progress has been made in many strategic mineral explorations such as gold, lithium, and fluorite.
In terms of investigation, China's geological exploration invested 101.022 billion yuan last year (RMB, the same below, about S $ 19 billion), an increase of 3.8%over 2021.Among them, oil and gas geological exploration investment was 82.387 billion yuan, an increase of 3.1%; quality survey investment of non -oil and gas mineral production areas was 18.635 billion yuan, an increase of 7.2%, which has achieved positive growth for two consecutive years.
In the exploration of non -oil and gas mineral surveys, coal (1.653 billion yuan), uranium (1.174 billion yuan), gold (1.071 billion yuan), copper (657 million yuan), lead zinc (572 million yuan) were used as asLord, accounting for 51.8%of the total investment in mineral exploration.
