Soils in Jinyun Mt. consists of quartz sandstone in Xujia River of Trias, acid yellow soil and paddy soil rotten parent material. In mountainous areas, Jurassic purple sandstone formed by medium or calcic purple earth.

Soils in Jinyun Mt. are divided into yellow earth and paddy soil, there is little fragmentary distributed purple earth. Yellow soil can be divided into yellow soil and yellow earth double subdivisions. Double ones belong to cold yellow sand soil and cold earth respectively. There are six types in cold sand soil and four cold sand earths. There is one subgroup in paddy soil, one soil earth, three soil local type soil.

Mineral resource in Jinyun Mt. takes coal as principal with little ferrous ore,ect. Coal layer mainly is distributed in Caijiagou, Yangsigou, Shuanghekou, Huangyanggou in the northwest of Jinyun Mt. and Yaodianzi, Shuimamen and Malinba in the southeast. It’s said that Baoyuan Coal Mine Company excavated coal in 1926-1933 with max annual production yield of 125085 tons. Iron ore mainly is distributed in Huoshao Mt. ,Duogu Rock and lines along the road in the northeast. In 1958, iron ore is used for smelting.