Recently, the General Office of the Guangzhou Municipal People's Government issued a circular on the issuance of the general plan for mineral resources in Guangzhou (2021-2025). The Plan is a guiding document for the exploration, development, utilization and protection of mineral resources in Guangzhou, an important basis for the examination, approval, supervision and management of mineral resources exploration, development and utilization activities in accordance with the law, a basic means for strengthening macro-control and mineral resources management and implementing the mining rights management system, and an important part of the national planning system.
The Plan takes 2020 as the base period, 2025 as the target year, and looks forward to 2035. The scope of application of the Plan is the administrative area under the jurisdiction of Guangzhou. Among them, it is clear that Guangzhou prohibits and restricts the exploration and mining of minerals and corresponding management measures, strictly restricts the mining of granite for construction and limestone for cement, and prohibits the mining of metal, ceramic clay and feldspar.
The "Plan" mainly includes three aspects:
First, optimize the layout of mineral exploration, development, and protection. To clarify the minerals prohibited and restricted by the city and the corresponding management measures, give priority to mineral water and geothermal exploration, moderately develop and utilize mineral water and underground hot water, strictly restrict the mining of granite for construction and limestone for cement, and prohibit the mining of metal, ceramic clay and feldspar. According to the resource status of different zones, the industrial distribution of resources is appropriately carried out, and no mineral exploration planning blocks are set up. The city is divided into 27 mining planning blocks, involving granite for construction, limestone for cement, sand shale for cement ingredients, mineral water and underground hot water, which are mainly distributed in Huadu District, Conghua District, Zengcheng District, Huangpu District, Baiyun District and Tianhe District.
The second is to strictly standardize the management of mineral resources development and utilization. During the planning period, the total number of mining rights will be controlled at 30, including no more than 7 solid mineral mining rights such as granite for construction, limestone for cement and sand shale for cement ingredients, and no more than 23 water and gas mineral mining rights such as mineral water and underground hot water. Green exploration, mining scale, development and utilization level, green mine construction and ecological protection and restoration of mining areas. Implementing the main responsibility of supervision of municipal and district natural resources management departments, strengthening law enforcement and supervision of mineral resources development and utilization, and comprehensively implementing the publicity of exploration and mining information of mining rights holders.
Third, we should strengthen the construction of green mines and the ecological protection of mining areas. We will comprehensively promote the construction of green mines, and by the end of 2023, all licensed mining mines in the city will meet the standards for the construction of green mines. Explore and construct a new mode of mine geological environment restoration and management with "government-led, policy support, social participation, development-oriented management and market-oriented operation", and speed up the comprehensive management of mines. Promote the pilot project of value realization mechanism of mine ecological products, and improve the management level of rights and interests of mineral resources assets. We should strengthen the monitoring of mine geological environment and improve the working mechanism of mine geological environment control and restoration. According to
the Plan, by 2025, the output value of the mining industry will reach 1.5 billion yuan, and the total annual mining of limestone for cement and granite for construction will reach 6 million tons per year and 30 million cubic meters per year, respectively. Strengthen the comprehensive utilization of resources, encourage and support new and existing building stone mining enterprises to add machine-made sand production lines, significantly improve the level of mineral resources protection and rational utilization, and promote the high-quality development of mining industry.
In order to promote the large-scale and intensive development of mineral resources, in combination with the actual situation, the minimum mining scale of the mine is limited based on the principle that the mining scale is compatible with the scale of mineral resources reserves: 1 million cubic meters of granite for construction, 1.5 million tons of limestone for cement, and 200,000 tons of sand shale for cement ingredients. Mineral water is 30,000 cubic meters per year, and underground hot water is 50,000 cubic meters per year. The mining scale of the mine shall not be lower than minimum mining scale standard. Non-metallic mines shall be encouraged to be developed on an intensive and economical basis, and to be developed on a large scale and comprehensively utilized.
Relying on scientific and technological progress and technological innovation, we should vigorously build green mines for building stones, change the way of mineral resources development and utilization, guide and encourage mining enterprises to create an intelligent, efficient and environmentally friendly development model of mining, processing and shipping, and improve the efficiency of resource exploitation. Newly-built and mining enterprises with supporting land conditions are
encouraged to introduce advanced machine-made sand production technology, and to make comprehensive use of sand and soil from quarry overburden, waste rock and dump, as well as stone from construction projects and stone from demolition of building concrete blocks, so as to build a large-scale industrial base of building gravel and machine-made sand with highly comprehensive utilization of resources.
To achieve a new pattern of green development with scientific mining methods, efficient utilization of resources, standardized enterprise management, environmental protection of production technology, ecological mine environment and harmonious mine land. Carry out the development and utilization mode of building stone resources of "mine and land as a whole, first mine and then land", and integrate the development and utilization of building stone resources with land development and utilization, ecological restoration and project construction. Mining enterprises in Guangzhou are encouraged to develop intensive processing projects of resources, extend and expand the chain of mining industry, and enhance the added value of the industry.
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