Abstract: With the rapid development of China's industrialization, the domestic supply of copper, chromium and potassium minerals lacked in China can no longer meet the domestic demand, and their import exhibits a trend of large amount and high price.From a viewpoint of the world market, the paper studies the world reserve and production distribution pattern, price tendency and China's import of copper, chromium and potassium minerals lacked in China, analyzes the existing problems and proposes the countermeasure of using both domestic and foreign resources and multi-utilization of international resource.

Key words: Lacked minerals, Copper, Chromium, Potassium