全球锆矿资源现状与利用趋势

Present Situation and Utilization Trend of Zirconium Resources in the World

锆作为一种重要的稀有金属矿产,广泛应用于现代陶瓷、特种玻璃和原子能工业等战略性新兴产业。中国已经成为全球第一大锆资源消费国,但中国锆矿资源存在可采储量不足、过渡依赖进口等诸多问题,其资源保障形式不容乐观。全球锆资源具有分布不均、供应高度集中、供需分离等特点。为了保障中国锆矿行业的可持续发展,提出立足国内、布局海外、加快产业结构调整及完善战略储备等可持续发展建议。

As an important rare metal mineral, zirconium is widely used in modern ceramics, special glass, nuclear energy industry and other strategic emerging industries. China has become the world’s largest consumer of zirconium sand, but there are many problems in the process of development and utilization of zirconium resources, such as insufficient recoverable reserves and over-dependent on imports, its resource safeguard form is not optimistic. Zirconium resources in the world are distributed unevenly and rarely concentrated, resulting in gaps between supply and demand of them. In pursuit of the sustainable development of zirconium industry in China, the paper puts forward some suggestions on sustainable development, such as taking a foothold in China, co-exploring oversea resources, accelerating the adjustment of industrial structure and increasing the strategic reserve.