China's Ministry of Land and Resources (MLR) has announced figures for new proven reserves of coal and
iron ore discovered in
China in 2011.
Accordingly, newly-discovered large and medium-size coal and
iron ore deposits in
China in 2011 amounted to 47 and 18 respectively, while new proven coal reserves totaled 57.51 billion mt and new proven
iron ore reserves amounted to 2.38 billion mt.