Best Mining Companies in China
The 175 best Mining companies in China in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Tage I-Driver.
Mining in China is moving faster than the funding numbers alone suggest, and our directory of 175 tracked companies with $253M in total disclosed equity is the clearest ranked view you'll find of who's actually capitalized to compete. Two names dominate that pool: Tage I-Driver at $98M and Zhaojin at $95M, together accounting for well over three-quarters of all disclosed capital, while the rest of the field runs thin, with Ganzhou Good Friends Technology at $14M and IRC at $30M rounding out the meaningful tier. No unicorns yet. That gap between the top two and everyone else tells you something real about concentration risk in this sector.
What's driving coverage growth right now is a cluster of themes that feel genuinely operational: analytics tooling, mine inspection protocols, diamond drilling, and mineral tenure disputes that are reshaping how operators think about asset control. China's active Belt and Road mining diplomacy is pulling fresh attention toward Chinese mining players as regional partners, which I'd argue accelerates both deal flow and regulatory scrutiny at home. Investors like Goldstone Investment, NewMargin Ventures, and GSR United Capital are the ones placing bets here, so if you're scanning for signal on where smart money is moving inside this sector, their portfolios are where to start.
Our analysis of 100 Mining companies
$17.0b in tracked funding; 82% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Mining companies in China
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tage I-Driver Develops products for autonomous driving of mining vehicles | $98M | 1 mo ago | Series D | Yu Guizhen CEO | 2016 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Zhaojin Mining and exploration company focused on gold assets | $95M | 52 mo ago | Public | Zhao Le CEO & MD | 2004 | JavaReactNginx+4 | 10 patents Vehicle thermal‑management components and quick‑freeze food processing equipment | — |
| 3 | IRC Producer and distributor of iron ore and industrial commodities products | $30M | 96 mo ago | Public | Yury Makarov CEO | 2010 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Songzai International Holding Group Provider of coal mining services | $15M | 185 mo ago | Series B | Hongwen Li CEO | 2001 | — | — | — |
| 5 | Ganzhou Good Friends Technology Provider of sorting equipment for mining 50Talent top 38%Funding top 50%Global bottom 29% All 3 signals ▾Talenttop 38% Fundingtop 50% Globalbottom 29% Talent: 2 named leaders on record · 2 C-suite/founder profiles curated Funding: Raised $14.0M across 1 rounds · 1 rounds over 5 yrs (0.2/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 50/100 | $14M | 30 mo ago | Series C | He Pengyu CEO | 2015 | — | — | — |
| 6 | Shi Xiucai Provider of platform for stone procurement | $582K | 93 mo ago | Seed | Wang Haiming CEO | 2014 | — | — | — |
| 7 | Century Global Provider of mining exploration services | $310K | 16 mo ago | Public | — | 2015 | — | 7 patents Design and production of wearable articles and accessories (protective clothing). | — |
| 8 | Borneo Resource Investments Provider of gold and coal mining services | $95K | 173 mo ago | Deadpooled | Nils Andrew Ollquist Chairman & CEO | 2004 | — | — | — |
Top 12 Mining companies in China
#1
Series D · Haidian, Beijing · founded 2016$98.4Mraised▾
TageIDriver develops products for autonomous driving of mining vehicles. The company claims to develop products for application in the ADAS vision-sensing terminals & autonomous driving robots. The company's product range includes car vision solutions, autonomous robots to provide smart & safe advanced vehicle assistance & autopilot products to businesses & individual users.
- Apr 2026Series D—
- Sep 2023Series C$54.6M
- Nov 2022Series C$14.1M
- Jan 2021Series B—
#2
Public · Yantai, Shandong · founded 2004 · 6759 employees$95Mraised▾
Mining and exploration company focused on gold assets
- Feb 2022Post IPO$95M
#3
Series C · Shenzhen, Guangdong Province · founded 2015$14Mraised▾
Provider of sorting equipment for mining
- Dec 2023Series C$14M
- Sep 2022Series B—
- Aug 2021Seed—
#4
Public · Kowloon, Hong Kong · founded 2015 · 26 employees$309.5Kraised▾
Provider of mining exploration services
- Jan 2025Post IPO$309.5K
#5
Public · Hong Kong, Hong Kong · founded 2010 · 1629 employees$30Mraised▾
IRC limited is a producer and distributor of iron ore and industrial commodities products in China. IRC owns and operates projects in the Russian Far East with existing facilities such as road, rail, energy, and water infrastructure to deliver products quickly and low costs. It is focusing its resources on K&S mine which is able to produce 3.2 million tonnes of high-grade iron ore concentrates per annum as of June 2018.
- Jun 2018Conventional Debt$30M
#6
Series B · Harbin, Heilongjiang · founded 2001$15Mraised▾
Provider of coal mining services
- Jan 2011Series B$15M
#7
Seed · Fujian · founded 2014$581.9Kraised▾
Shi Xiucai is a provider of platform for stone procurement. The products offerings include Sky Eye System is a stone transaction-purchasers, sellers solution, Stone/block mining is a platform to complete the docking of the supply and demand ends, Logistics Collection is a big data mining platform to monitor and calculate the freight demand and transportation capacity in real-time, etc.
- Aug 2018Angel$581.9K
#8
Deadpooled · Hong Kong, Hong Kong · founded 2004$95Kraised▾
Provider of gold and coal mining services
- Jan 2012Post IPO$95K
#9
Public · Hong Kong, Hong Kong · founded 1993 · 67 employees—raised▾
Exploration of lead and silver metals
- Feb 2024Post IPO—
- Jan 2021Post IPO—
#10
Public · Chengdu, Sichuan Sheng · founded 1995 · 2191 employees—raised▾
Tianqi Lithium is a group company engaged in the lithium extraction and li-battery separator manufacturing in China & Australia. Holds 100% equity interest in Yajiang Cuola Mine and Talison, a subsidiary company processes & extracts lithium from ore in Greenbushes, Western Australia. Owns 146 patents in the extraction and manufacturing of lithium carbonate, lithium hydroxide, and lithium chloride. Partnered with Aerospace Power Technology to develop and manufacture lithium-ion power batteries and integrated system.In 2022, the company recorded annual revenues of $5.96B and a net profit of $3.56B.
- Aug 2023Post IPO—
#11
Series A · China · founded 2020 · 100 employees—raised▾
Provider of autonomous driving vehicles for mining vehicles. The company develops integrated autonomous driving vehicles for mining. It offers high-precision positioning system, 5G network for communication, equipment health monitoring system, and more.
- Apr 2023Series A—
- Nov 2021Seed—
- Apr 2021Seed—
#12
Series C · Qingdao, Shandong · founded 2014 · 80 employees—raised▾
AI-based and autonomous driving system for mining. Its product Parallel driving 3.1 is an integrated automatic driving solution with functions such as operation management, online status monitoring, and safe takeover of emergency driving. Its also offers other solutions such as unmanned mine solution and remote emergency driving.
- Aug 2022Series C—
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Mining coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Mining Technology is moving in China
A read on the academic research around Mining Technology — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 1,144 China-affiliated papers.
- Kunming University of Science and Technology144
- Beijing General Research Institute of Mining and Metallurgy90
- Central South University67
- Jiangxi University of Science and Technology53
- China University of Mining and Technology43
- Mineral2→6
- Quartz4→8
- Raw material9→13
- Extraction (chemistry)2→6
- Adsorption1→5
- Sulfuric acid2→4
- Chromite2→5
- Beneficiation8→10
Where mining tech is researched across China
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Who's filing mining tech patents in China
China mining tech patent filing is accelerating — 34 filings from 42 assignees (2016–2025), led by LI Chunou, UNIV Jiangxi SCI & Technology, UNIV Wuhan TECH; annual filings 2→13.
- LI Chunou6
- UNIV Jiangxi SCI & Technology4
- UNIV Wuhan TECH3
- Jiangxi Naipu Mining Machinery2
- Liuzhou Huaxi Colored Design And2
- Beijing LRS TECH2
- UNIV North China Science & Techn2
- GEM2
Common questions
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