Promising and provable solid mineral resources in the shelf and abyssal deposits in Vietnam

The article discusses development prospects of the deep sea mining sector in Vietnam. The information on geological exploration implemented by the Vietnamese Center for Marine Geology and Minerals in the South China Sea is given. The main useful components in the provable solid mineral deposits, their contents, adjacency and horizons are revealed. The main minerals of the bottom deposits in the exclusive economic zone of Vietnam include: ilmenite, zircon, rutile, anatase, monocyte, xenotime, cassiterite and, partly, gold. The feedstock for production of construction materials and the chemical raw materials are discovered, too. The continental slope and the bottom of the South China Sea hold ferriferous manganese mineralization and pyrite. The principal shelf and abyssal deposits in the South China Sea are described. The need to continue and expand geological exploration, independently and in team work with other countries, is emphasized.

Ngo Tran Thien Quy, Kirichenko Yu. V., Shchyokina M. V. Promising and provable solid mineral resources in the shelf and abyssal deposits in Vietnam. MIAB. Mining Inf. Anal. Bull. 2021;(9):103-112. [In Russ]. DOI: 10.25018/0236_1493_2021_9_0_103.

Ngo Tran Thien Quy¹, Graduate Student, Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City, University of Natural Sciences, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, e-mail: nttquy@hcmus.edu.vn,
Yu.V. Kirichenko¹, Dr. Sci. (Eng.), Professor,
M.V. Shchyokina¹, Cand. Sci. (Eng.), Assistant Professor, e-mail: mshchekina@yandex.ru,
¹ National University of Science and Technology «MISiS», 119049, Moscow, Russia.

M.V. Shchyokina, e-mail: mshchekina@yandex.ru.

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