【SMM Aluminum Flash News】Mineral Resources Exploration Center Wins Bid for Yichuan Bauxite Project in Henan Province

Published: Jul 13, 2026 09:35

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Recently, the Mineral Resources Exploration Center successfully won the bid for the Yuanzhuang bauxite prospecting project in Yichuan County, Henan Province. This project, a provincial-level geological exploration project for 2026, aims to preliminarily determine the metallogenic geological conditions, ore body characteristics, and ore processing and beneficiation technical properties of the bauxite deposit through geological surveying, geophysical exploration, trenching, and drilling. It also seeks to understand mining technical conditions and estimate the inferred bauxite resources, providing a basis for further detailed exploration. This successful bid is an important manifestation of the Mineral Resources Exploration Center's active response to the national strategy for breakthroughs in mineral exploration and its fulfillment of its public-interest geological exploration functions. Moving forward, the Center will leverage this project to strengthen its work responsibilities, strictly adhere to relevant standards and design requirements, and strive to complete the prospecting task efficiently and effectively, aiming to submit high-quality exploration results and contribute to advancing the new round of strategic breakthroughs in mineral exploration.

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