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China's rapid industrialization requires imports of minerals from abroad. In particular, iron ore imports from Australia and the United States have soared in the early 2000s as steel production rapidly outstripped domestic iron ore production. China has become increasingly active in several African countries to mine the reserves it requires for economic growth, particularly in countries such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Gabon. As of at least 2024, Chinese companies account for 70% of cobalt mining in the DRC and are the world leaders overall in the production of cobalt.[1]: 49 

The major areas of production in 2004 were coal (nearly two billion tons), iron ore (310 million tons), crude petroleum (175 million tons), natural gas (41 million cubic meters), antimony ore (110,000 tons), tin concentrates (110,000 tons), nickel ore (64,000 tons), tungsten concentrates (67,000 tons), unrefined salt (37 million tons), vanadium (40,000 tons), and molybdenum ore (29,000 tons). In order of magnitude, produced minerals were bauxite, gypsum, barite, magnesite, talc and related minerals, manganese ore, fluorspar, and zinc. In addition, China produced 2,450 tons of silver and 215 tons of gold in 2004. The mining sector accounted for less than 0.9% of total employment in 2002 but produced about 5.3% of total industrial production.

In 2019, the country was the world's largest producer of gold;[2] 3rd largest world producer of copper;[3] 3rd worldwide producer of silver;[4] the world's largest producer of sulfur;[5] the world's largest producer of phosphate;[6] the world's largest producer of molybdenum;[7] the world's largest producer of lead;[8] largest world producer of zinc;[9] the world's largest producer of vanadium;[10] largest world producer of tin;[11] the world's largest producer of titanium;[12] the world's largest producer of antimony;[13] 2nd largest worldwide producer of bauxite;[14] 3rd largest world producer of iron ore;[15] 6th largest world producer of manganese;[16] 7th largest world producer of nickel;[17] 10th largest world producer of cobalt;[18] in addition to being the world's largest producer of salt.[19] It was the world's 8th largest producer of uranium in 2018.[20] Furthermore, it is the largest world producer of jade and one of the world producers of topaz, tourmaline, peridot and diamond.

Until the end of 2019, a total of 173 types of minerals have been discovered in China, including 13 types of energy materials, 59 metals, 95 types of non-metallic minerals and six types of water and gases. In 2019, the newly discovered geological reserves of oil were 1.12 billion tonnes, of which, 160 million tonnes were proven technically recoverable reserves. The newly discovered geological reserves of shale gas were 764.42 billion cubic meters, of which, 183.84 billion cubic meters were proven reserves. With respect to non-oil and gas minerals, the evaluation states that China has great prospecting potential for 24 major minerals, including coal, iron ore, manganese, chromite, copper, lead, zinc, bauxite, tungsten, tin, molybdenum, antimony, nickel, gold, silver, lithium, pyrites, phosphate rock, potash, magnesite, fluorite, boron and barite.[21]

JArthur1984 (talk) 19:48, 9 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

References

  1. ^ Garlick, Jeremy (2024). Advantage China: Agent of Change in an Era of Global Disruption. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-1-350-25231-8.
  2. ^ "USGS Gold Production Statistics" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 October 2022. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
  3. ^ "USGS Copper Production Statistics" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 October 2022. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
  4. ^ "USGS Silver Production Statistics" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 May 2021. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
  5. ^ "USGS Sulfur Production Statistics" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 October 2022. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
  6. ^ "USGS Phosphate Production Statistics" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2 May 2021. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
  7. ^ "USGS Molybdenum Production Statistics" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 October 2022. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
  8. ^ "USGS Lead Production Statistics" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 May 2021. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
  9. ^ "USGS Zinc Production Statistics" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 October 2022. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
  10. ^ "USGS Vanadium Production Statistics" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 13 April 2021. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
  11. ^ "USGS Tin Production Statistics" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 13 August 2021. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
  12. ^ "USGS Titanium Production Statistics" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 6 March 2023. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
  13. ^ "USGS Antimony Production Statistics" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 October 2022. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
  14. ^ "USGS Bauxite Production Statistics" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 8 December 2021. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
  15. ^ "USGS Iron Ore Production Statistics" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 October 2022. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
  16. ^ "USGS Manganese Production Statistics" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 25 June 2021. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
  17. ^ "USGS Nickel Production Statistics" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 October 2022. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
  18. ^ "USGS Cobalt Production Statistics" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 October 2022. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
  19. ^ "USGS Salt Production Statistics" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 October 2022. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
  20. ^ "World Uranium Mining - World Nuclear Association". www.world-nuclear.org. Archived from the original on 23 October 2020. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
  21. ^ Wu, Guohua (Annie); Li, Yingnan (Jason); Neal, Jincheng Tongda (1 March 2021). "Mining in China: overview". Thomson Reuters. Archived from the original on 4 October 2021. Retrieved 30 April 2021.
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