On January 5, JiangXi provincial department of land resources announced that the province found super large tungsten copper ore and  ascertained the resource amount of tungsten trioxide (WO3) is 2,860,000 tons. Tungsten ore reserves refreshed the world record (16.270,-0.01, -0.06%).

Zhu Xi tungsten copper mining area of FuLiang county is located in south east 135° of Jingdezhen city and the straight direction is 13 km. administrative region belongs to the ShouAn town of FuLiang county and YongShan Town of LePing county. It is understood that this is another world-class super large tungsten ore discovered recently after Jiangxi ascertaining super large tungsten ore of the big pond of WuNing. 

Complete drilling workload of 31522 meters in 5 years and discover the super large tungsten copper ore.

According to the project phased achievements of <ZhuXi Peripheral Tungsten Copper Census of FuLiang County> passed by expert review in December 2015, show that the ore reached to the super large scale.

In addition, the project has the associated copper of 224,400 tons, 1165 tons of silver ore. And zinc, gallium and cadmium can be comprehensive utilized. At present, the main ore body has not been controlled to the border across pitch and tendency. The exploring work continues and amount of resources will be further expanded.

According to introduction, the undertaking unit of the project is brigade 912 of Jiangxi provincial bureau of geology and mineral resources, the scientific research units are the Chinese academy of geological sciences, China University of geosciences (Beijing) and Beijing University.

For the past five years, 21 drillings and 31522 meters drilling work have been completed in total. All kinds of analysis of samples contain more than 16,000.

Tungsten ores in South of jiangxi, northwest of Jiangxi and northeast of jiangxi form the situation of “tripartite confrontation ".

In 2010, jiangxi provincial departments of land resources and finance listed the project in the fund key projects of geological prospecting of jiangxi province. In 2013, on the basis of the project getting the major prospecting progress, in order to achieve rapid breakthrough of geological prospecting, the geological exploration fund management center of jiangxi province and the central geological exploration fund management center adopted the model of two-stage linkage and listed the Zhu Xi periphery of fuliang county as prospecting focal area of two levels of funds.

According to introduction, the mining area constructed three drillings more than 2000 meters. Under unfavorable factors of complex strtum structure and karst development, it created the first success of solid mineral exploration core drilling depth of jiangxi province.

The discovery of the super large tungsten copper ore has also changed the metallogenic pattern of jiangxi province of “tungsten in south and copper in north”. The tungsten ores in South of jiangxi, northwest of Jiangxi and northeast of jiangxi form the new situation of “tripartite confrontation ".

Experts: Enhance the right of speech of Chinese tungsten in the world.

Relevant experts believe that Zhu Xi is the polymetallic deposit which combines the tungsten copper ore into one and focuses on skarn type. The scale of tungsten ore is big. The taste and associated minerals is rich. It is the tungsten deposit of largest resources ever found in the world and has great potential economic value.

The discovery of this deposit greatly improves the security degree of China’s tungsten resources and enhances the right of speech of China’ tungsten in the world.

And it has the vital significance of reserving ore resources, guiding the tungsten exploration and tungsten resources development in the future.