阐述了21世纪非传统矿产资源发现与开发研究的重要性和意义,在介绍了非传统矿产资源有关的国内外研究现状的基础上,阐述了非传统矿产资源研究的关键科学问题和非传统矿产资源体系的基本框架。非传统矿产资源体系包括非传统矿产—非传统方法—非传统矿业—非传统矿产经济四个方面。目前非传统矿产资源发现与开发研究亟待解决的关键科学问题主要包括:①地球演化及地球浅层作用过程中地质异常形成、演化、致矿机制;②成矿多样性、矿床谱系与新型矿产资源的发现;③矿产资源物质流及其最有效利用理论及模式研究等。

 The authors expatiated, at first, discovery and exploitation of nontraditional mineral resources, which is significantly important in 21st century. Then, introduced the research actuality of nontraditional mineral resources all over the world. Nontraditional mineral resources refer to potential resources which are unconsidered and unutilized under actual technical, economic and environmental conditions, or which are too difficult to be found because of geological complexity. Nontraditional
resources usually need nontraditional research and mining methods and nontraditional mineral economics.The system of nontraditional mineral resources is essentially established, which includes nontraditional mineral resources, research methods, mining and mining economics. There are some significant problems concerning discovery and exploration of nontraditional mineral resources:①Mechanism of geological anomaly formation, evolution and controlled mineralization during Earth evolution and interactive processes of earthspheres;②Diversity of mineralization and the discovery of new types of ore deposit;③Earth material flow theory and the model of its further utilization.