China releases Catalog of Mineral Resources

On October 13, the Ministry of Natural Resources, together with the National Development and Reform Commission, released an optimized Catalog of Mineral Resources. The catalog classifies minerals into four categories--energy minerals, metallic minerals, non-metallic minerals, and water and gas minerals--covering 174 mineral species and 119 sub-species.

Among them, metallic minerals include iron, manganese, chromium, vanadium, titanium, copper, lead, zinc, aluminum, magnesium, nickel, cobalt, tungsten, tin, bismuth, molybdenum, antimony, mercury, ruthenium, osmium, rhodium, iridium, palladium, platinum, silver, gold, lithium, rubidium, cesium, beryllium, strontium, zirconium, hafnium, niobium, tantalum, lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, samarium, europium, yttrium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, holmium, erbium, thulium, ytterbium, lutetium, scandium, rhenium, cadmium, gallium, indium, thallium, germanium, selenium and tellurium.