萤石作为一种重要的非再生非金属战略矿产资源,受到各国重视。随着科学技术和国民经济的快速发展,其经济价值和战略地位日益突出,广泛应用于冶金、建材、氟化工等传统领域和新能源、新材料、新医药等战略性新兴产业。近年来,氟化工产业链不断深化,对萤石资源的需求急剧增加,由于全球萤石资源储量有限、资源分布不均、贸易保护主义以及逆全球化势力等因素,全球氟化工产业呈现出高度集中和高度垄断的现象,不同国家和地区的经济发展和萤石资源清洁高效利用、精深加工技术水平存在较大偏差,对萤石产品的供需和消费格局产生严重影响,激化萤石资源储备与萤石产业发展之间的矛盾。本工作从资源储备、主要产业结构、供需消费结构及清洁高效利用技术等方面详细阐述了萤石资源的经济地位和战略意义,提出萤石资源的全球战略布局,通过强化萤石资源整合重组、清洁高效利用、精深加工技术与装备研发、高端产品制造,进一步推动萤石产业朝着精细化、复合化、轻量化、环保节能、循环经济氟化工产品应用领域以及高新技术产业的应用研究开发方向发展,保障萤石资源储备与供给,实现全球萤石资源优化配置和萤石产业的健康可持续发展。
Fluorite, as an important non-renewable non-metallic strategic mineral resource, has been valued by many countries. With the rapid development of science and technology and the national economy, its economic value and strategic position are increasingly prominent. In recent years, the fluorine chemical industry chain has been deepening, and the demand for fluorite resources has increased sharply. Due to the limited reserves of fluorite resources, uneven distribution of resources, trade protectionism, and anti-globalization forces, the global fluorine chemical industry is highly concentrated and highly monopolized. And there are great differences in the economic development, clean and efficient utilization of fluorite resources, and intensive processing technology in different countries and regions, which have a serious impact on the supply and demand of fluorite products and consumption patterns, and intensify the contradiction between fluorite resource reserves and the development of fluorite industry. In this review, the resource reserve, main industrial structure, the consumption structure of supply and demand, and clean utilization technology aspects in detail elaborated on the economic status and the strategic significance of fluorite resources. It is proposed to ensure the global strategic layout of fluorite resources by strengthening the reorganization of fluorite resources, clean and efficient utilization, deep processing technology and equipment research and development, high-end product manufacturing, etc. To further promote the development of the fluorite industry towards the direction of fine, complex, lightweight, environmental protection and energy-saving, recycling economy fluorite chemical products application field and high-tech industry application research and development, ensure the reserve and supply of fluorite resources, achieve the optimal allocation of global fluorite resources and the healthy and sustainable development of fluorite industry.