"Two high" mineral export restrictions will be stricter

Recently, the reporter learned from the Ministry of Land and Resources that China will optimize the structure of mineral products, formulate more stringent import and export policies for mineral products, limit the development of high-energy consumption, high pollution and export-oriented mineral products, and improve the geological environment protection of mines. According to the “National Mineral Resources Planning (2008-2015)” promulgated earlier, since May 1st, China will limit the mining of energy-intensive and polluting minerals such as bauxite and cement ash through the regulation of total mining. Rocks, etc., to minimize damage to the environment; in the development and utilization of layout, strictly control the impact of mining activities on the ecological environment, and strictly prohibit any mineral resources development activities that do not meet the requirements. In addition, it requires strict environmental protection access management for the development and utilization of mineral resources, focusing on the control of unreasonable mineral resources development activities, and the key remediation of 76 mine geological environment key management areas and 12 mining area land reclamation key areas.
At present, the geological environment of mines in China is still very serious, and the difficulty of treatment is getting bigger and bigger. The geological environment pollution and ecological damage of mines have caused huge economic losses and endangered environmental safety. With the rapid development of China's economy, resources and energy consumption will continue to grow, and the pressure on mine geology and environmental protection is increasing.
It is understood that according to the national mine geological environment protection and restoration and management objectives, by 2010 and 2015, the historical geological environment restoration rate of mines will reach 25% and 35% respectively. By 2020, the green mine pattern and new mining areas will be reached. The land use model was basically established.