The reporter understands from mine bureau, gansu province, submitted by gansu province geological survey institute of scandium ore mineral exploration achievements through expert review before acceptance. The exploration were found within the territory of jiuquan city Sun Guling, black mountain ridge, extending longshan of three independent scandium mine, has proven the resources is abundant, the large to very large standard.
"In the newly discovered three scandium in the mine, only Sun Guling scandium 1, after a preliminary evaluation of the surface and a small amount of drilling control validation, proved reserves in more than 94 tons, circle the scandium ore article 51. In the process of mineral exploration, engineering and technical personnel developed suitable for this kind of mineral smelting and processing of mineral resources, to provide technical basis for the development and utilization of scandium ore resources in China." Responsible for the management review work of the Chinese academy of engineering soup neutral said.
Learned, scandium is a kind of rare and scattered element, in metallurgy, national defense, electronics, medical, aerospace, superconductors, and other areas of the cutting-edge technology has an irreplaceable important use, is the important strategic reserve resource in our country. But as a result of scandium in abundance in the crust is very low, and most of the embedded in bauxite, phosphate rock, pyrophyllite and titanomagnetite minerals, makes the production cost is high, difficult to recycle, so the survey found large to super large independent scandium ore is very rare in the country.