The Chinese mineral resources report released for 2022

Delivery time:

27 Oct,2022

China's iron ore reserves, coal reserves of 16.124 billion tons, 207.885 billion tons respectively
Report from our correspondent (internship reporter ChuZhao endure) on September 21, the department of natural resources released 2022 annual "China mineral resources report" (hereinafter referred to as the "report"). In 2021, the report said, China's iron ore reserves, coal reserves of 16.124 billion tons, 207.885 billion tons respectively.
The report introduced in China since the 2021 survey of geology and mineral resources assessment, development of mineral resources exploration, mining ecological restoration, the green mine construction, the new progress of new mineral resources policy changes, new measures in aspects of mineral resources management, the new dynamic aspects such as scientific and technological innovation, and all the way "area" new results of geology and mineral resources cooperation.
The report, by the end of 2021, China has discovered 173 kinds of minerals, energy minerals 13 kinds of 59 kinds of minerals, metals, non-metallic mineral 95 kinds of 6 kinds of minerals, moisture.
In 2021, the report said, China geological exploration investment 97.287 billion yuan, up 11.6% from 2020. Among them, the mineral geological exploration of oil and gas investment 17.381 billion yuan, an increase of 7.5%, a new crown growth of 1.0% in 2019 before the SARS outbreak, the positive growth since 2013. The mineral geological exploration of oil and gas in coal, gold, gold, uranium, copper is given priority to, accounting for 51.2% of the total mineral exploration investment. Compared with 2020, the growth of the year 2021 minerals are mainly iron ore, potash, phosphate rock, graphite, etc. The mineral geological exploration of oil and gas drilling work completed 6.37 million meters, up 20.6% from a year earlier.
In 2021, China's iron ore geological prospecting investment 434 million yuan, up 75.0%; Drilling workload is 350000 m, up 75% from a year earlier. In the same year, the coal geology exploration investment 1.349 billion yuan, up 10.3%; Drilling workload of 520000 meters, down 46.9% year on year.
In addition, in 2021, China's iron ore production of 980 million tons, up 9.4% from 2020, apparent consumption (domestic production + net imports) of 1.52 billion tons (60% of grade standard ore).