Mongolia: the world's second-largest reserves of rare earths after China

As we all know, rare earth is a precious and strategic metal resource, which is called "industrial monosodium glutamate", "industrial vitamin" and "mother of new materials". China is the world's largest reserves of rare earths, with a proven reserves of 65.88 million tons. America has 13m tonnes, Russia 19m and Australia 5m tonnes. However, according to the latest data released by United States Geological Survey and related data collected by Mongolia. Mongolia, which is neighboring to China, has become the world's second largest reserves of rare earths after China, with 31 million tons of rare earth mineral resources, accounting for 20 percent of the world's total rare earth reserves.

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Rare earths are widely used in high-end technology fields such as aerospace, electronic information, nuclear industry, petroleum, chemical industry, ceramic glass, permanent magnetic materials and new energy. The importance of rare earth resources can be imagined. Many countries around the world are crazy about rare earth resources. However, some big rare earth reserves do not want to develop large amounts of their own rare earth minerals, or even "seal up" them, so as to import rare earth resources from China at a low price and then accumulate them as strategic reserves.

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China is the world's largest producer and exporter of rare earths, supplying most of the world's demand. But for a long time, China's rare earth resources have been exported to other countries at the "price of cabbage", while the domestic rare earth industry also has a chaotic layout, fierce competition among its peers and severe overcapacity. However, as the application of rare earths becomes more extensive and the trading activities gradually increase, the Chinese government attaches more and more importance to rare earths and controls them, and the supply of rare earths in China has been tightened.

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In the fierce global competition for rare earth resources, some major rare earth resource demand is looking for new rare earth supplies. Japan has discovered a vast amount of rare earths under its territorial waters, more than China currently has, but it has no mining technology. Japan is said to be moving away from its dependence on China's rare earths by buying them at high prices from resource-rich Mongolia and being willing to developthem jointly.

Mongolia has a very broad prospect of rare earth mineral resources, and its rare earth minerals are distributed widely, mainly in the provinces of Ubusu, western Kusukur and southwest Donggobi. Five rare earth element deposits, 71 rare earth ore spots and more than 260 rare earth mineralization zoneshave been found. Typical rare earth deposits include Halzangbugetai, Lugengol, Muhegehudag, etc. The rare earth minerals with special exploration and development potential include Tuva-kuzuur rare earth mining potential area, Kent rare earth mining potential area and Daranzadak rare earth mineral potential area.

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The rare earth deposits in Mongolia are mainly distributed in feldspathic minerals and alkaline rocks from late Mesozoic, early Mesozoic to mid-late Paleozoic. The known rare earth deposits (point) can be subpided into five types: ①deposit of rare earth elements related to alkaline granite; ②deposit of rare earth elements related to carbonatite; ③deposits of rare earth elements related tocarbonate rocks; ④ion-adsorbed rare earth element deposit; ⑤type of sand containing rare earth . The alkaline granite type and carbonate type rare earth deposits are the main types of Mongolian rare earth deposits and the most economical types.

Mongolia were pided into three metallogenic province and rare earth elements in seven metallogenic belt. They are Tuva - Kuzuur rare earth elements mineralization province(Ⅰ), Central Mongolia margin of rare earth elements mineralization province (Ⅱ) and South Mongolia rare earth element mineralization province(Ⅲ). Tuva - Kuzuur rare earth elements mineralization province includesDelen-altai metallogenic belt and Ulanqimu - alegerdeni metallogenic belt. Central Mongolia margin of rare earth elements mineralization province includes North hangai - sulleng metallogenic belt, the schalga-gobi altai metallogenic belt and East gobi - kroon metallogenic belt. South Mongolia rare earth element mineralization province includes Mongolia tectonic suture - line metallogenic belt and Gobi - tianshan metallogenic belt. Among them, Delen-altai metallogenic beltand Gobi - tianshan metallogenic belt have the greatest mineralization potential, and a large number of tantalum, niobium, zircon, yttrium and other rare earth elements may be found.

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Rare earth resources are rarerthan gold and oil, and key raw materials for high-tech products and military weapons. Mongolia has abundant rare earth resources, but has not been explored or exploited on a large scale. Therefore, we should think deeply -- we should not only strengthen the awareness of rare earth resources protection, leave some for future generations, but also let rare earths become China's "trump card"!

 

 

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