Abstract: With the economic development and industrial upgrading in China, minerals such as potash, rare resources, rare earth resources, scattered metals, fluorite, pyrophyllite, gangue quartz, crystalline graphite, and boron are playing an increasingly critical role in the development of the seven kinds of strategic emerging industries, including the new generation of information technology, new energy vehicles and high-end equipment manufacturing. Besides, the demand of these mineral resources is also gradually increasing. The “Strategic Emerging Mineral Survey Project” (2019-2021) aims to achieve the identification of resource potential of important minerals, breakthroughs of prospecting and formation of the large-scale resource bases. Based on the mineral survey, the researchers in this project have carried out innovative research on the metallogenic laws and prospecting methods of lithium, potash, beryllium, niobium, tantalum, fluorite, vein quartz, and other minerals in large resource bases and important ore concentration areas in key areas of China. Besides, the comprehensive utilization of these mineral resources were also carried out and a number of major prospecting results were achieved, which enriching the metallogenic theory and innovating the prospecting methods. The new progress of the project is briefly introduced in the prospecting of lithium and potash in Northeastern Sichuan, the investigation of rare resources and rare earth resources in Western Sichuan, the investigation of rare resources in Altyn of Xinjiang, the survey of fluorite boron resources in southern Jiangxi and Pucheng area of Fujian, and the exploration of gangue quartz pyrophyllite special non-metallic mineral in Eastern China. The achievements were also introduced, including metallogenic regularity research, exploration technology and method, green investigation and comprehensive utilization of rare earth resources, fluorite, vein quartz and other key minerals in the main metallogenic belts such as Northeastern Sichuan, Western Sichuan and Altyn. It is of great significance to further improve the resource guarantee and research degree of strategic minerals such as potash, lithium ore, fluorite and vein quartz in China, and to promote the development of emerging industries and the follow-up investigation and evaluation of strategic minerals in China.