Baicheng, Xinjiang 新疆拜城

China’s first zircon placer deposit in ancient river and lake sediments was discovered in Baicheng, Xinjiang.

CCTV.com News (Xinwen Lianbo): The Ministry of Natural Resources says that China’s prospecting campaign has made a good start in the opening year of the 15th Five-Year Plan and achieved a number of positive results. The exploration project at the Chating copper-gold mine in Anhui completed about 100,000 meters of drilling in just four months, achieving a major breakthrough. The Zhugongtang lead-zinc mine in Bijie, Guizhou, is a super-large, fully concealed, high-grade and thick lead-zinc deposit that has been discovered. As for strategic emerging minerals, China’s first ancient river-lake placer zircon deposit was discovered in Baicheng, Xinjiang, filling a domestic gap in prospecting for super-large zircon deposits. Its resource reserves are equivalent in scale to those of more than 40 large zircon deposits, and its associated hafnium deposit has also reached a super-large scale, which can substantially increase China’s self-sufficiency in zircon.