Tun bayan aiwatar da sabon zagaye na ci gaba a dabarun binciken ma'adanai, Binciken Kasa na kasar Sin na Ma'aikatar Albarkatun Kasa, tare da hadin gwiwar Gwamnatin Jama'a ta Lardin Hubei, sun gudanar da cikakken bincike da haɓaka fasahar amfani da albarkatun kasa na Miaoya mai girman niobium a yankin Zhushan Zhuxi na arewa maso yammacin Lardin Hubei. An shawo kan babbar fasahar amfani da albarkatun niobium yadda ya kamata, kuma za a kunna tan 929000 na albarkatun niobium don cimma nasarar amfani da albarkatun kasa na Miaoya mai girman niobium mai girman gaske a fannin tattalin arziki.
Ci gaba da haɓaka manyan fasahohin zamani don amfani da albarkatun niobium gaba ɗaya a arewa maso yammacin Hubei zai samar da wata hanya ta fasaha mai yuwuwa ga tattalin arziki ga ƙananan ƙasashe na China kuma yana da wahalar amfani da albarkatun niobium. Wannan yana da matuƙar muhimmanci ga wadatar da China ke da shi a fannin albarkatun niobium da kuma inganta ƙarfin tsaronta.
Niobium yana da halaye na juriya ga tsatsa da kuma juriya ga zafin jiki mai yawa, kuma muhimmin ƙarfe ne mai mahimmanci a fannonin sararin samaniya, tsaron ƙasa, masana'antar soja, da makamashin nukiliya. Yana da muhimmiyar albarkatu na dabaru. China ta gano tan miliyan 4.7 na albarkatu, tana matsayi na biyu a duniya, inda ta mayar da hankali kan yankuna kamar Baiyun Obo a cikin Mongoliya ta Cikin Gida, Liangzhu a Hubei, Yichun a Jiangxi, Baicheng a Xinjiang, da Huayangchuan a Shaanxi. Idan aka kwatanta da ƙasashen waje, albarkatun niobium a China gabaɗaya suna da kaddarorin ma'adinai masu rikitarwa, ƙarancin maki, kuma suna da wahalar amfani da su.
Tarihin binciken ma'adinan ƙasa mai suna Miaoya niobium rare earth za a iya gano shi tun daga shekarun 1960, amma saboda ƙarancin fasaha, koyaushe yana da wahala a cimma ci gaban albarkatu da amfani da su. Ta hanyar amfani da ci gaban fasaha mai zurfi, masu binciken ƙasa na ƙasar Sin sun ƙirƙiri fasahar raba ƙasa mai suna niobium rare earth ta hanyar kirkire-kirkire, inda suka cimma manyan nasarori a manyan fasahohin zamani don amfani da albarkatun niobium yadda ya kamata. Matsayin niobium concentrate ya karu daga 5% zuwa 8% a cikin hanyoyin gargajiya zuwa 17%, kuma ƙimar murmurewa ta karu daga 20% zuwa 50%. A lokaci guda, an cimma cikakken amfani da ƙasa mai suna rare earth, ƙarfe, sulfur da sauran albarkatu, wanda hakan ya tabbatar da tsaron wadatar albarkatun niobium a ƙasar Sin.