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Reflections on technological innovations for increasing China’s gold reserves and production

  • English Author:
  • Long Tao1,2, Hou Jun2,3,4

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  • (1. China National Gold Group Co., Ltd.; 2. Key Laboratory of Ground Control Management Plan in Deep Metal Mines, National Mine Safety Administration; 3. Changchun Gold Research Institute Co., Ltd.; 4. School of Resources and Civil Engineering, Northeastern University)
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Abstract:

Gold reserves are a crucial pillar of national monetary credit and play a key role in the economy. Increasing gold reserves not only enhances a nation's financial credibility and stability but also serves as an important tool for addressing economic crises, inflation, and international imbalances of payments. This paper systematicallyreviews the current situation, major challenges, key technologies, research foundation, and recommendations concern technological innovations for increasing gold reserves and production in China. It explores how technological innovations can improve gold resource reserves and output, with a focus on critical innovations in gold mine exploration, mining, beneficiation, metallurgy, en ental protection, and processing in China. Moreover, suggestions a proposed according to the major challenges and key technologies of technological innovations. While China's gold mining industry is gradually transitioning towards automation and intelligentization, with significant improvements in mining efficiency and safety, several challenges to technological innovations for increasing gold reserves and production in China remain due to the characteristics of gold deposits, such as the scarcity, fine particle size, and complex mineral associations of gold, as well as the persity of gold deposit types, such as difficulties in understand ing gold mineralization patterns, a lack of effective exploration technologies for low-grade gold ores, Iow efficiency in gold resource mining, beneficiation, metallurgy and comprehensive utilization, and limited intelligent applications in resource development scenarios. e utiliz Currently, China possesses the capability to tackle these challenges by advancing key technological innovations, such capabilit as rapid extraction of gold prospecting information, green mining technologies for high-altitude and cold regions, intelligent mine construction, multi-metal synchronous enrichment and green  metallurgy synergy  technologies, high-purity gold preparation and deep removal of trace impurities, whole-industry-chain analysis and testing technologies, and construction of whole-industry-chain integration, communications and patterns reconstruction. These innovations are essential for increasing gold reserves and production, enhancing the core competitiveness of China's gold industry, and promoting its sustainable development.

Keywords:

gold industry; increasing reserves and production; technological innovation; resource development; sustainable development; automation; intelligentization