Tens of millions of tonnes of copper uncovered in resource-rich region as nation’s mineral-exploration breakthroughs mount.

Chinese researchers conducted assessment survey on northwest Tibetan Plateau, also known as Qinghai-Xizang, between 2015 and ...

The total copper ore deposit in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, which has four mines each with over 10 million tons of copper ...

China has announced a significant discovery of a copper deposit of over 20 million metric tons in the Qinghai-Xizang plateau, ...

More than 120 people have been killed after a powerful earthquake struck a remote region of Tibet, but with limited media ...

China is now the world’s most dammed country, with more large dams in operation than the rest of the world combined.

At least 126 people were killed in Tibet by this week's earthquake of magnitude 6.8, the fifth-deadliest since 2008, data ...

The Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, accounting for more than two-thirds of China's total copper resources, is capable of rivaling copper-rich Andes Mountains in South America. In particular, the Gangdise belt ...

BEIJING — A magnitude 5.5 earthquake shook parts of the Chinese province of Qinghai on Wednesday (Jan 8), with its epicentre ...

Earthquakes in China happen most frequently on the Tibetan Plateau or its fringes. The seismically active area is where the ...

A quake of magnitude 8.0 that killed 69,227 people in May 2008 was one of China's deadliest natural disasters in decades.