More mineral deposits are expected to be discovered in Xinjiang in the future as hundreds of billions of yuan from the government and nearly two hundreds of domestic and overseas enterprises are spent on the resources exploitation there. A report will be submitted by 2012 about ten potential large deposits 500 to 1,500 meters beneath the earth surface in the Tianshan Mountain, the Altay Mountain, the Junggar Basin, the Kunlun Mountain and the Altun Mountain that may contain 600 million tons of iron ore, seven million tons of copper, 2.5 million tons of lead and zinc, and 900,000 tons of gold.