Abstract: Metal mineral resources industry is an important component of mineral resources industry, which has a wide range of layout and covers many fields.It is often considered to have a strong dependence on resource endowment and related industries.Based on the provincial statistical data between 2003 and 2016, this paper analyzes the spatial layout characteristics of metal mineral resources endowment and metal mineral resources industry with spatial Dubin model in China and explores the dependence of the metal mineral resources industry, metal mining industry and metal smelting and processing industry on resource endowment.At the same time, the influence of the layout of related industries on the metal mineral resources industry and different links has also been studied.The results show that the resource endowment only affects the spatial layout of the metal mining industry and has no significant impact on the overall metal mineral resources industry and the metal smelting and processing industry layout.The layout of the metal mining industry and the metal smelting and processing industry affect each other, but mainly affect the local area, and have no spatial spillover effect in the neighboring areas.The layout of the backward correlative industries of the metal mineral resources industry has a positive impact on the local metal mineral resources industry.It has a positive impact on the local and adjacent areas of the metal mining and dressing industry, while the impact on the layout of the metal smelting and processing industry is not significant.