The Present Situation and Prospects of Platinum Metals Resources in China
中国铂族金属资源现状与前景

This paper is based on the comparision of the resourec requirement and guarantee degree of PGE metals and the resource development trend of all kinds of PGE deposits between China and countires abroad. The study is focused on the resource prospects of the Norilskian picrite volcanic intrusive type copper, nickel and platinum deposits in Panxi Dianzhong area (the area of Panzhihua and Xichang in Sichuan Province and central Yunnan Province),the black shale type molybdite, nickel, platinum deposits in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River in Hunan and Guizhou Provinces and the Huili tectonic alteration type platinum group elements deposit in Sichuan Province. It is pointed out that advances in the prospecting work for the three types of PGE deposits are quite splendid in China. Among these deposits, the black shale and tectonic alteration type platinum group elements deposits are new types of ore deposits discovered recently.