China Nonferrous Metals News
10 July: At a press conference to launch the newly published “2017 National Mineral Resources Reserves Status’, a spokesman for the MNR (Ministry of Natural Resources) said ‘that China’s major strategic mineral resources reserve had increased overall by end-2017.” Annual mineral resources reserve growth in 2017 is represented by crystalline graphite (93.7%), gold (61%), tungsten (47.9), molybdenum (41%), antimony (34.2), bauxite (33.2%), natural gas (26.1%), phosphate (26%), nickel ore (22.2%), copper (17.4%), coal (17.3%) and fluorite (15.2%).
