According to CTIA GROUP, the Caosiyao molybdenum mine has entered the development stage. Located in Xinghe County, Ulanqab City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, it is an ultra-large porphyry molybdenum deposit with enormous resource reserves. The total investment of the project is nearly RMB 10 billion. After commissioning, the project is expected to gradually establish a full industrial chain cluster covering mining, beneficiation, smelting, and processing, with an estimated annual output value of nearly RMB 10 billion.
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The Caosiyao molybdenum mine plans an initial open-pit mining and construction scale of 16.5 million tons/year, with a service life of 45 years (including a 2-year construction period). In the later stage, it will be converted to underground mining with a production scale of 8.25 million tons/year, bringing the total service life to 72 years. According to the beneficiation test report, the molybdenum ore will be processed using a combined column-flotation cell process consisting of three-stage two-closed-circuit crushing plus one-stage grinding. The roughing section adopts one roughing, three scavenging, and one pre-concentration stage, while the cleaning section involves regrinding and classification of rough concentrates followed by four cleaning stages and three concentrate scavenging stages.
The Caosiyao molybdenum mine possesses considerable resource reserves and contains associated valuable elements including molybdenum, lead, zinc, tungsten, gold, silver, and sulfur. Its resource reserves rank among the leading deposits of the same type in China. The deposit features shallow burial depth, thick ore bodies, abundant reserves, and low mining difficulty, demonstrating significant resource endowment advantages.
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The Caosiyao molybdenum mine contains molybdenum ore resources of up to 1.035 billion tons, with molybdenum metal content reaching 1.089 million tons and an Mo grade of 0.105%. Associated tungsten ore resources amount to 898,000 tons, containing 1,764 tons of WO? with a grade of 0.20%. Associated gold ore resources total 69,000 tons, with gold metal content of 308 kg and a grade of 4.46 g/t. Associated lead-zinc ore resources amount to 356,000 tons, containing 17,103 tons of zinc metal with a grade of 4.80%, and 1,361 tons of lead metal with a grade of 0.38%. Associated silver ore resources amount to 356,000 tons, containing 4,821 kg of silver metal with a grade of 13.54 g/t. Associated sulfur ore resources amount to 356,000 tons, containing 14,582 tons of sulfur with a grade of 4.09%.
The designed utilization of retained resources at the Caosiyao molybdenum mine includes 1,000.623 million tons of molybdenum ore, containing 1.060396 million tons of molybdenum metal; 866,000 tons of associated tungsten ore, containing 1,717 tons of WO?; 43,000 tons of associated gold ore, containing 236 kg of gold metal; 356,000 tons of associated lead-zinc ore, containing 17,103 tons of zinc metal and 1,361 tons of lead metal; 4,821 kg of associated silver metal; and 14,582 tons of associated sulfur. The designed utilization rate of retained resources reaches 96.65%.
