Nonferrous Metals

Northwest China's Gansu Province has further boosted its reputation as the nation's major nonferrous metals production centre, the People's Daily reported yesterday.

Between 1986 and last year, the paper said, the Chinese government had invested nearly 1.9 billion yuan in developing the province's nonferrous metals resources, and 680 million yuan in updating its production equipment.

The two sums of money represented increases of 187 per cent and 183 per cent, respectively, compared with the 1981~1985 period, the paper said.

The bulk of the money was being spent on developing the resources of nickel, cobalt and the rare metals in the platinum family including palladium, osmium, iridium, ruthenium and rhodium.

After five years of development, the report said, the province was now able to produce 10 kinds of nonferrous metals. The area's annual output of nonferrous metals rose to 250 000 tons last year from 180 000 tons in 1985.

Gansu also earned more profits than any other province in this sector, the paper said. Last year, it earned 648 million yuan in pre-tax profits.

When the work to expand the Jinchuan Nonferrous Metals Corporation was completed in the near future, it said, the province was expected to be able to produce 40 000 tons of nickelt, 2000 tons of copper and 400 000 tons of sulphuric acid a year. These figures would be double the present output.

Since the mineral ores treated in jinchuan also contained cobalt, gold, silver and platinum, the paper said, the output of these metals was also expected to increase.

The first phase of the expansion project was completed in 1987 at a total cost of 780 million yuan .

As a result of such work, the paper said, nickel production had increased from 10 000 tons to 20 000 tons, making up 85 per cent of the country's total output.

The province's production of other nonferrous metals had also risen sharply, it said, adding that its cobalt production so far accounted for one-third of China's total output.

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有色金属

《人民日报》昨天报道说，中国西北省份甘肃省，作为国有主要有色金属生产中心，名声大振。

该报道说，从1986年到去年间，中国政府投资了将近19亿元来开发该省的有色金属资源，并投资6. 8亿元用来更新其生产设备，同1981〜1985期间相比，这两笔资金分别增加187%和183%。

这些投资中的大部分用于开发镍、钴和包括钯、锇、铱、钌和铑在内的铂族稀有金属资源。

该报道说，经过五年的开发，该省现已能够生产10类有色金属。该地区有色金属的年产量已从1985年的18万吨上升到25万吨。甘肃也在这个部门获得了比其他任何省份多的利润。去年，它获得的税前利润为6. 48亿元。

该报说，预期到金川有色金属公司扩建工程在近期完成时，该省每年将能生产4万吨镍2万吨铜和40万吨琉酸。这些数字将是目前产量的两倍，由于在金川冶烁的矿物里还含有钴、金、银和铂，预期这些金属的产量也会增加。

金川扩建工程的第一期工程于1987年完成,总的花费为7. 8亿元。

该报说，由于这项工程的建成，镍产量由1万吨增加到2万吨。占中国总产量的85%。

报纸还说，甘肃省其他有色金属的产量也大幅度上升，并说迄今为止它的钴产量已占中国总量的三分之一。 

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