According to CTIA GROUP LTD Online, the Henan Provincial Department of Natural Resources proposes to adjust the tungsten mining utilization target set in the "Henan Provincial Mineral Resources Master Plan (2021-2025)" from an annual output of 11,750 tons to "implemented according to quotas issued by the Ministry of Natural Resources," with the indicator nature remaining "binding."
The first batch of tungsten mining (WO3, 65%) total control quotas for Henan Province in 2025 is 7,050 tons, remaining stable year-on-year; in 2024, it was 14,100 tons, increased by 1,360 tons year-on-year, a rise of 10.68%; in 2023, it was 12,740 tons, increased by 490 tons year-on-year, a rise of 4.00%; in 2022, it was 12,250 tons, increased by 500 tons year-on-year, a rise of 4.26%; and in 2021, it was 11,750 tons, remaining stable year-on-year.
The "Henan Provincial Mineral Resources Master Plan (2021-2025)" outlines the 2025 planning goals: achieving significant progress in geological exploration, further enhancing resource security capabilities, optimizing the regional layout of exploration and development, significantly improving the efficient utilization of mineral resources, steadily advancing green exploration and green mining construction, continuously improving the mining geological environment, and basically establishing a new high-quality development model. The 2035 long-term vision includes further enhancing mineral resource security capabilities, achieving fundamental improvements in the mining geological environment, realizing a comprehensive transformation and green development of the mining industry, and fully forming a new pattern where mining development integrates organically with ecological civilization.
The plan also emphasizes strengthening the protection and reserves of strategic minerals: large and medium-sized deposits of strategic minerals should not be covered or impacted in principle. Large and medium-sized deposits that are not suitable for development under current technical, economic, or ecological conditions should be protected. Six strategic mineral resource protection zones for coal, rare earth, and iron ore have been designated, accelerating the advancement of mineral deposit reserve projects to establish a "three-in-one" reserve system for products, capacity, and sites. Comprehensive exploration and evaluation of mineral resources are to be conducted, including integrated exploration and assessment of co-associated minerals alongside the primary mineral targets. For coal, aluminum, gold, molybdenum, silver polymetallic, and common fluorite deposits, exploration must include a comprehensive evaluation of beneficial co-associated components.
