Assessment of mineral resources in Vietnam in the current context

Vietnam is considered a country with diverse mineral resources with more than 5000 mines of 60 types of minerals. In which, some types have important reserves such as bauxite (672.1 million tons), apatite (0.778 million tons), titanium (15.71 million tons), coal (3,520 million tons), rare earth (1, 1 million tons) and granite (15 billion m3). Oil reserves are estimated at about 6 billion tons and gas is about 4,000 billion m3, mainly distributed in sediments from South to North.