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Jinchuan Group Ltd is located in Jinchang, an industrial
city, and in the eastside of the Hexi Corridor in Gansu Province, China. The terrain of the mine is flat, and
the altitude is between 1,500 and 1,800 meters above sea level. The climate in Jinchang is typical of temperate
zone and continental climate. The city lies 22 kilometers north of Lanxin Railway, which is a section of
Europe-Asia Continental Bridge. Jinchuan Group Ltd enjoys very convenient railway and road transportation
facilities with its railways of the production area connected to the Lanxin Railway.
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Jinchuan nickel mine was discovered in 1958,
and it is one of the most famous large multi-metal associated nickel and copper sulphide
deposits in the world. The ore bodies mainly scatter over an area of 6.5 kilometers long
by 500 meters wide along the foot of Mountain Longshou. The proven ore reserves are 520
million tons, in which nickel reserves are 5.5 million tons, which are ranked the third
largest deposit of its kind in the world, and copper reserves are 3.43 million tons, the
second largest in China. The results of geologic exploration of recent years have shown
that there exists a good prospect of new ore-bodies exploitation at deep, edge and periphery
areas of Jinchuan nickel deposit. Jinchuan minerals are associated with valuable elements
including cobalt, gold, silver, platinum, palladium, osmium, iridium, ruthenium, rhodium,
selenium, tellurium. sulfur, chromium, iron, gallium, indium, germanium, thallium, cadmium
and so on, 14 kinds of which can be extracted, There are rarely such huge and concentrative
deposits containing so many valuable metals both at home and abroad.
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