What are the main mineral resources in Taiwan Province of China?

Taiwan’s mineral resources can be divided into three categories: energy, metals and non-metals.

Energy minerals mainly include coal, oil, natural gas and geothermal energy.

Among them, coal was developed and utilized earlier and has been gradually depleted. The reserves are only about 100 million tons and the annual output is less than 100,000 tons.

Oil and natural gas are the more important energy deposits in Taiwan. Currently, more than 500 square kilometers of oil and natural gas geological exploration have been completed. By 1999, the proven oil reserves were more than 300 million liters and the natural gas reserves were about 10.7 billion liters. cubic meters, mainly distributed in the western part of the Central Mountains and the Taiwan Strait.

Geothermal resources are relatively abundant, and more than 90 hot springs have been discovered, of which more than ten are of greater economic development value, mainly distributed in the Datun Mountain volcanic group area in the north.

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Taiwan has relatively many types of metal mineral deposits, but the reserves are not large.

The metal mineral deposits that have been proven to be of greater development value mainly include gold, silver, copper, iron, etc., as well as manganese, titanium, zirconium, monazite, mercury, nickel and chromium mineral deposits.

Gold mine is the most important metal mineral deposit in Taiwan. The current proven reserves are about 5.8 million tons, mostly raw ores of gold, silver or copper.

Copper ore reserves are also relatively abundant, about 4.7 million tons.

Iron ore is relatively scarce, with total reserves of about 2 million tons.

Other financial mineral reserves are even smaller, and the required metal minerals are mainly imported in large quantities.

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Taiwan has many types of non-metallic mineral resources and abundant reserves.

Those with higher economic value and larger reserves mainly include marble, limestone, dolomite, sandstone, feldspar, serpentine, talc, asbestos, mica and sulfur.

Among them, marble is the most abundant non-metallic mineral deposit in Taiwan, with reserves of nearly 300 billion tons.

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In addition, Taiwan still has mineral deposits such as sea salt and gemstones.

Taiwan’s sea salt drying began with Zheng Chenggong***. After that, mainland immigrants spread the method of drying sea salt to Taiwan. On Taiwan Island, from the coast of Chiayi in the north to the coast of Tainan in the south, North Gate, Budai, Qigu and other salt fields.

Since then, Taiwan’s sun-dried salt industry has developed.

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Taiwan’s gem mines mainly refer to nephrite and are distributed in the Toyota and Xilin areas of Shoufeng Township, Hualien County.

The serpentine layer contains a small number of nephrite belts. The early reserves were about 600,000 tons, but now they have shrunk significantly.

The main varieties include blue stone, cat's eye stone, jadeite, etc., collectively known as "Taiwan jade". Its color is exquisite and it is one of the world's famous jade.

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