非金属矿工业是以矿产资源为基础的采掘工业。由于许多矿产品具有优异的物理化学性能,因此世界各国对它的开发利用十分重视,已成为一个新崛起的重要工业部门。1965年至1975年的十年中,世界非金属矿产品生产指数年平均增长率为金属的1.73倍,迄今仍保持这个增长的势头。美国年耗非金属矿物的价值,是年耗金属价值的两倍。 Non-metallic mining industry is based on mineral resources mining industry. Since many minerals have excellent physicochemical properties, all countries in the world attach great importance to its development and utilization, and have become a newly emerging important industrial sector. In the decade from 1965 to 1975, the annual growth rate of the world’s non-metallic mineral production index was an average of 1.73 times that of metal, and so far it has maintained its momentum of growth. The value of non-metallic minerals consumed by the United States is twice the value of annual consumption of metals.