Ore Mineral Resources of No. 3 Mine
Ore minerals are substances from which one or more useful metallic elements can be extracted industrially. it can be divided into nine zones in turn: the pegmatite zone featuring graphic textures, the fine-grain albite zone, the massive microcline zone, the quartz-muscovite zone, the clevelandite-spodumene zone, the quartz-spodumene zone, the muscovite-flaky albite zone, the lepidolite-flaky albite zone, and the massive quartz zone. The primary industrial products derived from this area include beryl, spodumene, columbite, beryllium, and lithium minerals.A total of 86 kinds of minerals have been discovered in the No. 3 vein, with the predominant rare metal minerals reaching 26, including lithium (Li), rubidium (Rb), cesium (Cs), beryllium (Be), niobium (Nb), tantalum (Ta), zirconium (Zr) and hafnium (Hf). In comparison, the beryllium reserves in the No. 3 vein are the largest in China, while its reserves of tantalum, lithium, and cesium rank among the highest globally.