One, the millennium Bronze capital (China’s bronze capital) – Anhui Tongling
Tongling copper culture in Anhui province has a long history and is one of the birthplaces of Chinese bronze culture. Copper mining began in Shang and Zhou Dynasties and lasted for more than 3000 years without interruption, which is very rare among the known ancient copper mine sites in the Yangtze River Basin.
Tongling is “China’s ancient copper capital, contemporary copper base”, the first copper industrial base in New China was built in Tongling, the first copper water, the first copper ingot came from Tongling, and the first copper stock came from Tongling.
Tongling region is located in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, with good construction conditions and abundant capital. A number of large and medium-sized deposits such as Tongguan Mountain, Lion Rock Mountain, Daguan Mountain, Dongguashan Mountain, Fenghuang Mountain, Xinqiao, Guichi, Anqing, Langya Mountain and Shaxi have a total copper reserves of more than 3 million tons, which is one of the eight major non-ferrous metal industrial bases in China.
Old bronze ware — Tongling Colored
Tongling Nonferrous Metals is one of the most complete copper industry companies in China, with a complete integrated industrial chain of mining, smelting, refining and deep processing. As the country’s first and the world’s second electrolytic copper producer, Tongling Nonferrous Metals has always been in the leading position in China’s copper industry as a veteran copper producer.
In terms of copper resources, the Company’s copper resource reserves continue to increase, as of the end of 2016, the company has eight mines, including Dongguashan copper mine, Anqing copper mine, Shaxi copper mine, Fenghuangshan copper mine, Tongshan copper mine, Tianmashan sulfur gold mine, Yueshan copper mine, and Xianrenqiao Mining, with a total copper reserves of about 2.05 million tons.
Tongling is “China’s ancient copper capital, contemporary copper base”, the first copper industrial base in New China was built in Tongling, the first copper water, the first copper ingot came from Tongling, and the first copper stock came from Tongling.
Tongling region is located in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, with good construction conditions and abundant capital. A number of large and medium-sized deposits such as Tongguan Mountain, Lion Rock Mountain, Daguan Mountain, Dongguashan Mountain, Fenghuang Mountain, Xinqiao, Guichi, Anqing, Langya Mountain and Shaxi have a total copper reserves of more than 3 million tons, which is one of the eight major non-ferrous metal industrial bases in China.
Old bronze ware — Tongling Colored
Tongling Nonferrous Metals is one of the most complete copper industry companies in China, with a complete integrated industrial chain of mining, smelting, refining and deep processing. As the country’s first and the world’s second electrolytic copper producer, Tongling Nonferrous Metals has always been in the leading position in China’s copper industry as a veteran copper producer.
In terms of copper resources, the Company’s copper resource reserves continue to increase, as of the end of 2016, the company has eight mines, including Dongguashan copper mine, Anqing copper mine, Shaxi copper mine, Fenghuangshan copper mine, Tongshan copper mine, Tianmashan sulfur gold mine, Yueshan copper mine, and Xianrenqiao Mining, with a total copper reserves of about 2.05 million tons.
Dexing has proved that there are more than 10 million tons of copper reserves with mining value, and there are rich ancient mining sites and cultural relics on the ground and underground, as well as the largest copper mine in Asia – Dexing Copper mine.
It is reported that last year, Dexing copper industry to achieve an output value of 1.84 billion yuan, accounting for 52.7% of the scale of the industry, accounting for 25% of the national economy, the annual mining output value of 2.57 billion yuan, of which the annual output of 122,500 tons of copper, ranking first in South China, has truly become an important base of the national non-ferrous metal industry.
The largest copper enterprise – Jiangxi Copper Industry
Jiangxi Copper owns Dexing Copper mine (including Tongchang mining area, Fujiawu mining area, cinnabar red mining area), Yongping copper mine, Chengmenshan copper mine (including Jinjiwo silver copper mine) and so on.
As of 2016, the company’s resource reserves were 9.83 million tons of copper metal, and the resources controlled by the united companies were about 4.43 million tons of copper metal resource reserves calculated according to the company’s equity.
Dexing Copper Mine in Jiangxi Province is the largest open pit copper mine in China
Dexing Copper Mine, located in Dexing City, Jiangxi Province, is the largest open-pit copper mine in Asia and the first in China. Dexing Copper Mine is rich in copper resources, with accumulative proven reserves of about 9 million tons, ranking first in China. The mineral deposits are characterized by large and concentrated reserves, shallow burial, small stripping ratio, good ore selectivity, and many comprehensive utilization elements.
Dexing has proved that there are more than 10 million tons of copper reserves with mining value, and there are rich ancient mining sites and cultural relics on the ground and underground, as well as the largest copper mine in Asia – Dexing Copper mine.
It is reported that last year, Dexing copper industry to achieve an output value of 1.84 billion yuan, accounting for 52.7% of the scale of the industry, accounting for 25% of the national economy, the annual mining output value of 2.57 billion yuan, of which the annual output of 122,500 tons of copper, ranking first in South China, has truly become an important base of the national non-ferrous metal industry.
The largest copper enterprise – Jiangxi Copper Industry
Jiangxi Copper owns Dexing Copper mine (including Tongchang mining area, Fujiawu mining area, cinnabar red mining area), Yongping copper mine, Chengmenshan copper mine (including Jinjiwo silver copper mine) and so on.
As of 2016, the company’s resource reserves were 9.83 million tons of copper metal, and the resources controlled by the united companies were about 4.43 million tons of copper metal resource reserves calculated according to the company’s equity.
Dexing Copper Mine in Jiangxi Province is the largest open pit copper mine in China
Dexing Copper Mine, located in Dexing City, Jiangxi Province, is the largest open-pit copper mine in Asia and the first in China. Dexing Copper Mine is rich in copper resources, with accumulative proven reserves of about 9 million tons, ranking first in China. The mineral deposits are characterized by large and concentrated reserves, shallow burial, small stripping ratio, good ore selectivity, and many comprehensive utilization elements.
In 1956, the general survey and exploration began, and two large porphyry copper mines were found, and associated with molybdenum, sulfur, gold, silver and other elements. On August 18, 1958, Dexing Copper Mine was established. 1965 Built Beishan mine, underground mining; In 1971, Nanshan Mine was built for open-pit mining. The main production of copper concentrate, sulfur concentrate, electrodeposition copper, etc.
In 2003, the mine produced more than 120,000 tons of copper, accounting for about a quarter of the national copper production; At the same time, the annual output of gold is more than 5 tons and silver is more than 20 tons, which is also the largest associated gold mine and associated silver mine in China. Dexing Copper mine has broad development prospect and is the main mine of Jiangxi Copper Co., LTD.
Third, Tiannan copper capital – Yunnan Dongchuan
Dongchuan District, located in the northeast of Yunnan Province, China, was transformed into a prefecture-level city in 1958. In 1999, due to the depletion of mineral deposits, thousands of years of copper are overwhelmed, The State Council agreed to revoke the prefecture-level Dongchuan City, the establishment of Kunming Dongchuan District. At this point, Dongchuan became the first city in China to be built and withdrawn due to mining.
The copper mine in Dongchuan District has proved reserves of 28.13 million tons and has a history of more than 2000 years of copper production, so it is known as the capital of copper. Copper ore is associated with gold, silver, cobalt, germanium, cadmium and other rare metals, in addition to iron, phosphorus, aluminum, zinc, gypsum, sulfur and other minerals.
Although after more than two thousand years of mining and smelting, Dongchuan is still one of the six major copper production bases in China, the geological reserves of copper still accounts for the second place in the country, the copper concentrate content accounts for the third place in the country, and the Dongchuan copper industry still has its important position in China’s non-ferrous metals and economic development.
Yunnan copper industry — the second largest copper production base
Yunnan Copper (Group) Co., Ltd. is the second largest copper production base in China. The current equity copper reserves of the company are about 6.5 million tons. Among them, the production capacity of Dahongshan copper and Pulang Copper mine is more than 10,000 tons, which is 50,000 tons/year and 22,256 tons/year, respectively.
4. The capital of copper — Daye, Hubei
Daye has a long history, with more than 3,000 years of bronze smelting history, more than 1,000 years of history of building a county and more than 100 years of history of opening up. During the Yin and Shang Dynasties, the furnace and smelting industry flourished and created a brilliant bronze civilization. It is the birthplace of Chinese bronze culture.
Daye is rich in minerals, known as the “hundred miles of gold, Jiangnan Corvette” reputation. It has discovered and proved 273 large and small deposits, 53 kinds of metallic ores and non-metallic ores, and is the country’s 6 largest copper production bases, 10 largest iron ore production bases and key producing areas of building materials. Gold and silver production ranks first in Hubei Province, wollastonite reserves rank second in the world.
Daye Nonferrous Metals Company now has “six mines and two factories”, namely Tonglushan, Fengshan, Tongshankou, Chima Mountain, Daye copper plant, Xinye and other large and medium-sized copper mines and a copper smelter, a copper processing plant.
Bronze hometown — Huangshi, Hubei Province
Huangshi is one of the birthplaces of Chinese bronze culture and also the cradle of modern Chinese national industry. Huangshi City has a profound industrial culture, a long history of mining and smelting, numerous mining and smelting sites, and a good industrial foundation, so it is known as “bronze hometown” and “Bronze ancient capital”. It occupies an important position in the development history of Chinese agriculture.
Yellowstone is rich in mineral resources and has a brilliant mining history. Yellowstone has been found metal, non-metal, energy and water gas minerals in 4 categories of 77. Among them, wollastonite reserves rank first in China. There are 42 kinds of minerals listed in the reserve table.
Among them, copper, cobalt, tungsten, molybdenum, gold, silver, strontium, rhenium, wollatonite, diopside, marl, fused tuff, decorative marble and other 14 kinds of mineral reserves have a potential economic value of more than 400 billion yuan.
According to public information, the gold reserves of Huangshi account for 88% of the province, although the iron ore reserves account for only 23.7% of the province’s reserves, but the output ranks first in the province. Although it has rich mineral resources, it has been included in the list of the second batch of resource-exhausted cities by The State Council.
