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Ordos discovers 4.61 billion tons of coal

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Ordos is finding more and more coal. It discovered 4.61 billion tons of coal in a mining region in the city’s Juungar Banner over the past year, according to exploration results recently released by the Ministry of Natural Resources. [Photo/WeChat account of Ordos News]

Ordos discovered 4.61 billion tons of coal in a mining region in the city’s Juungar Banner in 2018, according to exploration results recently released by the Ministry of Natural Resources.

Statistics showed that China invested 17.37 billion yuan ($2.53 billion) in exploration last year, a year-on-year decrease of 12.4 percent.

Officials said that despite the lower investment, the exploration proved to be high yielding.

According to the report, 153 new mines were discovered and 29.7 billion tons of coal, along with 97.44 tons of gold and 13 million tons of iron ore were proved up last year.

 

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