This website extracts the relevant contents of the Administrative Penalty Decision of Liaoyang Natural Resources Bureau of Liaoning Province (No.2 [2026] of Liaoyang Natural Resources Bureau) under the title of "Cement Enterprises Fined and Confiscated 74,800 yuan for Cross-border Limestone Mining". After investigation, from the end of May to the first ten days of June in 2025, Liaoning Honghe Group Shengxing Cement Co., Ltd. exploited ores beyond the approved mining area during the construction of its limestone mine reconstruction and expansion project, with a cross-border mining volume of 0.68 million tons and an illegal income of 68000 yuan. Law enforcement agencies ordered enterprises to immediately return to the mining area, confiscate illegal income of 68000 yuan, and impose a fine of 6800 yuan at 10% of the illegal income, with a total fine of 748000 yuan. The Mineral Resources Law, revised at the 12th meeting of the 14th Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on November 8, 2024, has been implemented since July 1,
2025. After the revision, the legal liability has been significantly tightened. According to the provisions of the revised provisions, if mineral resources are mined beyond the mining area registered with the mining right, the competent department of natural resources of the people's government at or above the county level shall order the cessation of the illegal act, confiscate the tools and equipment directly used for illegal mining and the mineral products illegally mined, and impose a fine of not less than three times but not more than five times the market value of the mineral products illegally mined; If no mineral products are mined or the market value of illegally mined mineral products is less than 100000 yuan, a fine of not less than 100000 yuan but not more than 1 million yuan shall be imposed. The illegal time
of Shengxing Cement's mining beyond the approved mining area shall be punished according to the revised Mineral Resources Law. That is, those who mine beyond the approved mining area shall be ordered to return to the mining area, compensate for the losses, confiscate the mineral products and illegal income mined across the border, and may also be fined, and those who mine beyond the approved mining area in the Rules for the Implementation of the Mineral Resources Law shall be fined. A fine of less than 30% of the illegal income shall be imposed (Note: The Regulations on the Implementation of the Mineral Resources Law shall come into effect on June 15, 2026, and the Detailed Rules for the Implementation of the Mineral Resources Law shall be abolished at the same time).
If Shengxing Cement's illegal mining beyond the approved mining area occurs half a month later and enters July, the penalty according to the revised clause is not only to confiscate the illegal income of 68000 yuan, but also to impose a fine of 6800 yuan according to 10% of the illegal income. Instead, the tools and equipment directly used for illegal mining and the mineral products illegally mined shall be confiscated, and a fine of 204000 yuan to 340000 yuan shall be imposed, or a fine of more than 100000 yuan and less than 1 million yuan shall be imposed if the market value of the mineral products illegally mined is less than 100000 yuan.
Obviously, the state has strengthened the protection of mineral resources and ecological environment, safeguarded the rights and interests of the state owners of mineral resources and the legitimate rights and interests of mining rights holders, and increased the punishment for illegal acts. The
mining right holder shall carry out the prospecting and mining operations in accordance with the approved prospecting and mining plans; if the prospecting and mining plans require major adjustments, they shall be submitted to the original mining right transfer department for approval in accordance with the relevant provisions.
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