This year, the Qinghai Geological remain "massive investment, large formation combat" prospecting. 2013 remarkable geological survey work, putting more than 530 sets of drilling rigs, the year is expected to be completed exploration investment 3.5 billion yuan. Additional 320 million tons of coal resources, 080 million tons of iron ore, copper, lead and zinc Nickel 2.4 million tons, 46 tons of gold, potash 100 million tons, 900,000 tons of graphite, quartzite 400 million tons, 300 million tons of limestone.

Exploration results further expand the exploration area, summer Hamu additional 580,000 tons of nickel resources, total resources of more than one million tons, has reached a very large scale, and is currently ranked the country's second largest nickel deposit; Tuotuohe more than before Ma new mining lead and zinc resources of 1.5 million tons, total resources amounted to 6.4 million tons; mining exploration for natural persons Bay bonanza silver resources amounted to 1,000 tons, 500,000 tons of lead and zinc, to a large scale; that West Guo Le regional submitted iron resources of 1,500 million tons, iron ore QIMANTAGE find another district; Wulonggou ready area added 3.55 tons of gold resources, the region's gold resource of 4.91 tons; Qaidam Basin deep potash exploration made ​​significant progress, add 122 million tons potash resources; Dulan region and pivotal beams were discovered crystalline graphite mine 500,000 tons, 600,000 tons.