Vanadium as a vital nonferrous metal is widely used in mainly industrial domains. China

This paper, based on China's lithium resource development actuality, analyzes its issues, and presents suggestions for its sustainable development. Chinas lithium resources are mostly concentrated in Tibet, Xinjiang, Qinghai, Sichuan and Jiangxi. The major types are rock type and brine type. As brine lithium has been developed in recent years, China has been a lithium resource country. Due to many factors, China has a poor development extent and is highly dependent upon imported lithium.China is also the biggest lithium consumer. Issues in China's lithium industry include poor technology, irrational industrial structure, poor development extent of brine lithium, low recovery in processing and recycling, environmental pollution. This paper presents suggestions on adjusting policies, optimizing industrial structure, intensifying cooperation among companies, establishing industrial association, boosting production technology, increasing recovery and focusing on environmental protection.

This paper, based on the advances of mineral resources evaluation index, establishes a comprehensive evaluation index system for Qarhan salt lake including social and economic developing level, resource and environmental protection, resources development and use level and intelligence supporting level. Case study is applied by multiple fussy comprehensive method on Qarhan salt lake. The result indicates that its sustainable development and use level is between traditional to weak sustainability during 2000 to 2005, and between weak to preliminary during 2010, which is consistent with Qarhan salt lakes situation and verifies the validation and operation of the established index system.

 According to USGS and some websites data,it generally shows a good status in China’s silver resource development and utilization with silver reserve ranking ahead and production ranking top in the world. China is a big country for silver, but there are issues during silver development and utilization, such as less guarantee in silver resource, irrational silver industrial structure, low metallurgical technology and low recovery rate. China shall optimize industrial policies and structures, carry out a protective mining, raise resources utilization rate and promote a sustainable development.

Recently, as electronics and automobile industries go fast, China^,s tin production has been over operated. Since 2004, China, holding a share of less than 30% tin resource globally, has contributed 40%, leading to a falling in tin reserve. China^,s tin industry is facing many issues, poor comprehensive use, low recycling use, irrational industrial structure, and direct export of raw materials, etc. This paper compares the tin production with other countries, suggests on governmental macroscopic controls, exploration investment, exploring overseas, tin production consolidation, recycling industrial mode, optimizing industrial chains, detailing export items, so as to guarantee China^,s sustainable development of tin production.

Gold production and consumption in China is increasing recently. Gold industry is stepping into group’s operation and sizable management. This paper, based on current status of Chinese gold producers, gold production, price and consumption, analyzes the gold industrial structure and presents a strategy for Chinese gold industry.