Suggestions on exploration, development and utilization management of fluorite resources

As an important mineral raw material regard to modern industry, fluorite is widely used in traditional chemical industry, metallurgy, building materials, optics and other industries.It is also the key raw material of hydrogen fuel cell, lithium battery, chip cleaning agent and other important emerging industries.China has produced about 60% of the world’s fluorite products with less than 15% of the world’s fluorite reserves in a long-term.The static guarantee period of fluorite resources in single type deposits is 14.5 a, and it leads to threat resource security.Through the research of investigating the fluorite exploration and development situation in Zhejiang, Inner Mongolia, Henan and other provinces (regions), and holding expert meetings, this paper has fully aware of the problems of exploration in low level, over exploration, high proportion of refractory resources and long-term monopoly of advantageous resources in China’s fluorite industry.It is preliminarily predicted that the demand and price of fluorite will be growth.It will be strategy for fluorite reserves with low impurity content, reserves of upgrading fluorite products.This paper has formed suggestions to improve the safety supply of fluorite resources, mainly including prospecting the fluorite resources, strengthening the fluorite resources exploration, strict mine development standards, improving the level of comprehensive development and utilization, and strengthening the protection of fluorite resources, strengthen the supervision of processing trade, accelerate the planning and management of fluorite resources and industrial development, and support the “going out” strategy of fluorite enterprises.