Abstract: Exploration-exploitation base of iron mineral resources is one of the important approaches to achieve the reasonable distribution as well as optimized the exploitation of iron mineral resources,which has great significance for the national iron security.From the point of "exploitation",based on three indicators which were the identify resource reserves,the design mining scale,and the scale structure of mines,This paper used the kernel density estimation that belongs to the spatial clustering method to delimit Chinese exploitation base of iron mineral resources,and made a statistics to the county administrative regions that contains to the exploitation base considering the importance of ecological function indicator as the restrictive index.The results showed that there can be roughly recognised ten exploitation base of mineral resources in the iron distribution areas,which contain a total of 420 county administrative regions.The statistical resultsof related indicatorsindicated that the exploitation base of iron mineral resourcehave covered most of the iron resources and their exploitation and utilization activities.In addition,this paper throw out suggestions for the exploitation and utilization of the related bases,in order to provide support for the relevant decision-making of exploitation base of iron mineral resources in China.