Maritime and mineral resources

 With a 250 km long coastline, Quang Ninh has many fishing grounds to exploit seafood. Most of them get high  and steady production and is distributed nearby the coast, which is favourable for expoitation.

Besides, there are more than 40.000 ha of tides and million hectares of places that are good for raising and processing exported seafood.

There are some enterprises that gives offers to the customers, such as Vosa, Vosco, Vinaship, Vicosa, Prosimex, or NYK ( Japan), FESCO ( Russia)...

Besides favourable conditions of sea resources, abundant manpower as mentioned above, Quang Ninh also has potential for cultivated agricultural land and forestland.

The entire province has 601,000 ha of land including 57,364 ha of cultivating agricultural land, 342,557 ha of deserted land (236,483 ha of land improved for use), 196,019 ha of forest land suitable for planting grass for feeding industry, around 20,000 ha suitable for planting fruit trees (litchi, pineapple, orange, banana, mango, etc.), 44,000 ha of tidal areas convenient for aquaculture.

Quang Ninh is also nearby material supplying areas for processing industry of agricultural, forestry, aquatic products from neighbour agricultural provinces such as Hai Duong, Bac Ninh, Bac Giang, Thai Binh, Ha Nam,...

Quang Ninh has a great resource of various minerals, many of which are of rich deposits and high quality and donnot exist anywhere esle in Vietnam but this province such as coal, kaolin, clay, glass sand, limestone, etc.

  Fossil coal : Quang Ninh is famous all around the country for coal. Coal mines chain is 150 km long extending from Ke Bao Island (Van Don) to Mao Khe (dong Trieu). An amount of 3.8 billion tons is investigated enabling an yearly production of 30 - 40 mil. tons.

Quang Ninh pit-coal belongs to the anthracite type, which is hardened with stable carbon content of 80-90%, and high calorie of 7,350-8,200 Kcal/ kg. Quang Ninh’s 3 main coal exploitation areas are Hon Gai, Cam Pha – Duong Huy and Uong Bi – Mao Khe which reach a capacity of 12 mil. tons a year.

The amount exploited in 2002 was over 15 mil. tons including more than 5 mil. tons for export. Quang Ninh’s 3 main coal exploitation areas are Hon Gai, Cam Pha – Duong Huy and Uong Bi – Mao Khe which reach a capacity of 12 mil. tons a year. The amount exploited in 2002 was over 15 mil. tons including more than 5 mil. tons for export.

Mines of limestone, clay, kaolindeposits are rather great, widely distributed in the province. Specifically, limestone deposit is in Hoành Bồ, Quang Hanh; Kaolin deposits are in mountainous districts of Hải Hà, Bình Liêu, Ba Chẽ, Tiên Yên and Móng Cái T own; clay deposits are distributed mainly in Đông Triều, Hoành Bồ and Giếng Đáy (Hạ Long city). These are important material sources for the production of building materials for domestic market and international market.

Especially, Quang Ninh is bestowed with the following large material areas
A reserve of 1,322 mil. tons of limestone and 130 mil. tons of clay in Hoanh Bo which makes it possible to produce 10 mil. tons of cement a year for a period of more than 100 years. As investigated, the limestone block No. 2 located in Hoanh Bo can provide 226 mil. tons of high quality qualified enough to produce special cement. In addition, other big limestone deposits of high quality for cement production are found in Dong Trieu - Uong Bi and Quang Hanh – Cam Pha.

A reserve of 41.5 mil. tons of clay located in Gieng Day ensures the production of 100 mil. bricks and tiles a year for a period of 100 years. Gieng Day clay has high contents of Fe2O3 and Fe3O4 as compared to those found in other places that bricks and tiles made of this material are dark red, well-shaped, smooth, and of high quality. Gieng Day clay is really qualified enough to produce ceramic and chinaware, decorative bricks used in extra standard building.

Three granite deposits in Quang Ninh are: Hai Ninh deposit, which has a reserve of 35 mil. c. m of black, smooth, semi-pure granite, anti-pressure of 1,600 - 1,650 kg/ sq. cm; Quang Hà deposit which has a reserve of 30 mil. c. m of full-range color (pink, brown, grey) granite, anti-pressure of 1,300 - 1,500 kg/ sq. cm; and Binh Lieu deposit which has a reserve of 90 mil. c. m of pink granite, pocpia family.
Tan Mai kaolin deposit is so big.

The kaolin is crystallised into huge rock of light white color and beautiful veins. o¬nce quarried from the ground, it is soft and easy for processing. After certain period of time, it becomes hard and gloss. Customers from abroad, including Japan, were interested in this kind of kaolin o¬nce it was discovered.

For its better physical and chemical characters comparing to that of Czech and Slovakia, it is used to produce normal and super electric insulating materials, building decoration, fine arts, and sculptural works, etc.