Exploration personnel from Geological Team 216 of the China National Nuclear Corporation recently made a major breakthrough in the Tiaohu area of the Santanghu Basin in Barkol Kazakh Autonomous County, Hami in eastern Xinjiang.
They discovered a large coal deposit more than 50 meters thick, with total coal resources exceeding 2 billion tons. Wang Guo, the team's general engineer, said this is the fourth largest coalfield discovered in Xinjiang to date.
By People's Daily Online
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