Progress of mineral resources potential evaluation and application prospect in China
Mineral resource potential evaluation is the estimation of the possibility of mineral resources in un-known areas,which creates the favorable condition for the next step of mineral resource exploration.China has completed four rounds of national mineral resource potential assessments,and the use of assessment the-ories,methods,models and results is becoming more mature.The main progress of China's mineral resource potential evaluation is as follows.The standardization of scale,the national metallogenic belt situation has been basically understood.The information refinement,mineral resource potential evaluation in smaller are-as such as metallogenic sub-belts and deposits has a strong development momentum.The model standardiza-tion,the recognition of deposit metallogenic series theory and multi-mineral comprehensive evaluation meth-od has been improved.The evaluation result provides a more important decision-making reference for miner-al resources planning and geological prospecting.At the same time,the article takes lithium,graphite and gold mines in China as examples to analyze the geological structure environment,metallogenic belt distribu-tion,deposit genetic types of different mineral types.It summarizes the previous evaluation result of mineral resources potential,and the China mineral resources procedural framework for potential evaluation is con-structed.Finally,the article points out some outstanding problems in the current evaluation of China mineral resources potential,and it also looks forward to the application prospect of China mineral resources potential evaluation.It is considered that there can be made for more positive progress in the data collection,theoreti-cal innovation,target area orientation and data application.
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