Ganzhou, the Capital of Tungsten

Ganzhou, Jiangxi, the birthplace of China’s tungsten industry, which is known as “the capital of tungsten”.

In 1907, a German cleric found tungsten deposit in Huaxi Shan Mountain of Dayu county. The history of exploiting tungsten in China started in 1914 when people found large deposits of tungsten one after another in Zhongshao, Chongyi, and Daji shan Mountain in Quannan county. In 1931,Mao Zedong who was then the bank president and general manager of “ Chinese Tungsten Ore Enterprise” of Chinese-Soviet Republic, during his term of office, the mining quantity reached near to 8000 ton, creating a wealth worth of 6.2 million yuan, by which he was able to exchange large volume of drug, salt and arms. Tungsten has played an important role in breaking through the beleaguer and economic blockade arranged by KMT.

After the establishment of the People’s Republic of China, nine state-own mines, 16 local mines and over 20 collective mines were established in Ganzhou, Ganzhou became one of the most important producing areas of raw tungsten in China even the whole world. During which time, geologists ascertained that there were 106 tungsten mines with a storage of 1.17million tons, the producing area ranks No.2 in China in terms of reserve volume, but ranks top in term of the reserves of wolframite , the area accounts for 70% of like product in China and 60% in the world.  

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