OREANDA-NEWS.  January 18, 2012. Over one billion yuan is to be put into the geological work of Anhui in 2012, in order to strengthen the ore seaching, issued by the Department of the Land Resources on January 18, who also indicated that private capital will be encouraged to invest in the geological survey.

Chen Lianggang, Director of the Department of the Land Resources introduced that 292 provincial level geological projects with an investment of 640 million yuan were conducted in 2011 and 6 large and medium size mines were discovered.

90 percent of the mines of Anhui are medium and small size and the technologies of exploring large and good mines are still backward. It will still take a long time to search mines overseas, said Chen.