The city of Weinan, located in the conjunction of the Qinling geosyncline and the Ordos platform, riches in mineral resources, four main categories of the mineral resources are all growing here. The space distributive pattern is in belt shape and shows as “Non-ferrous metals in the south, energy resources in the north, and the geothermal energy, building materials in the middle”. The north is the edge of Ordos basin area where mainly supply the coal, sedimentary nonmetallic minerals, and small amount of metal ores and sedimentary metamorphic minerals. Coal, cement, limestone, sedimentary iron ore, bauxite and other minerals are all produced in the northern part of the area. For the Fen-Wei graben area in central part, there are plenty of reserves of clay minerals for brick and tile, high-quality mineral water, geothermal resources, and a small amount of salt. Southern part includes the partial mountains of western Henan, the main offer is a multi-metal ore belt, such as large-scale molybdenum, uranium, niobium lead and some wide exposed small Qinling gold fields, etc., followed by non-metallic building materials, marble, vermiculite and graphite, as well as Huashan granite and Laoniu mountain granite building materials, stone and so on. Minerals were buried shallow in Weinan, and the associated, symbiotic multi-minerals are the majorities.

     As of the end of 2002, the identification of resources / reserves was up to 51 kinds. Within were 4 kinds of energy minerals, 8 kinds of metallic minerals, 8 kinds of rare, scattered, rare earth elements, 31 kinds of non-metallic minerals, and 238 mineral producing areas. 38 minerals and 221 producing spots were listed in the reserve table. 5 mineral reserves, Molybdenum, lead, copper, niobium, and selenium     rank No. 1 in Shaanxi Province, in which the reserves of molybdenum ranks the country's top three; iron, bauxite, rhenium rank No. 2 in Shaanxi Province; gold reserves rank No.3 in Shaanxi Province, and marble and graphite rank No. 4 in Shaanxi Province.