Shaanxi builds green mining

Recently, in accordance with the development strategy for Shaanxi Province to build green mining, conservation and resource-utilizing mining, the province started to build green mining and implement mining after extensively investigating problems in the province's mineral resources distribution, mineral development, and mining environmental protection. Environmental protection is deployed. Xi'an bears the brunt of this, focusing on the "Northern China Garden" and the northern foot of the Qinling Mountains. It has implemented special mine rectification work and began to rectify the illegal exploration and mining of the northern Qinling mines. It is reported that Xi’an’s special rectification will be carried out in 3 phases. Before the end of 2015, the number of mineral rights in the city will be reduced to less than 45; in the middle period, by the end of 2016, the number of mineral rights in the city will be reduced to 28 or less; By the end of 2020, the number of mineral rights in the city will be controlled within 17 or less, which is 72% less than in 2014. The Ankang and Hanzhong areas have also started to move toward declaring war on undocumented development, barbaric development, low-level development, and destructive development.

Excessive use of resources

Shaanxi Province is rich in mineral resources. There are 75 types of minerals that have been developed and utilized, and 3,977 various types of mining enterprises. The total annual production of ore is 127 million tons. These abundant minerals are mainly concentrated in the vast Qinling Mountains and northern Shaanxi.

In recent years, due to the rapid economic development in China, the exploration, development and utilization of iron, manganese, gold, copper, lead, zinc and metallurgical auxiliary minerals have been promoted. However, due to the extensive use of resources, there are also problems in the development of mineral resources. If mineral development lacks unified planning and overall layout, the level of exploitation and utilization of minerals is not high, and the effective utilization rate of resources is low; the mines are decentralized, the production methods are backward, the market adaptability is poor, the ability to resist risks is low, and the overall strength of the mining industry is not strong. Insufficient; mining and related industries have low technological content and low economic efficiency; mines and related industrial enterprises are small and scattered, technological equipment is relatively backward, production capacity is difficult to expand, and production capacity is difficult to increase; traditional industrial layout and product structure are not Major breakthroughs and improvements, poor management and eco-environment issues are also outstanding; the processing and utilization links in mineral development are weak, and the added value of mineral products has not been fully exploited. Mining production is dominated by primary ore mining. Among the total annual output of ore, raw ore and primary minerals account for 80%. The mineral industry chain has not yet formed. The mining economy has not achieved economies of scale and overall benefits. The mining rights market has not yet been established and commercial exploration has been conducted. The operating mechanism is still not perfect. The scope of registration of geological survey projects is too large and the investment for exploration is insufficient. The progress of geological survey work is slow and the exploration period is too long. As a result, the mining right cannot enter the market and “recruit, shoot, and hang”. The above problems have seriously affected the development of the mining rights market in Shaanxi Province.

Will adopt the strictest environmental protection and resource conservation policies

How to achieve a deep combination of resource conservation and comprehensive utilization of mining development, so that mining development has achieved significant economic, environmental and social benefits, mining structure adjustment and improvement, environmental improvement, and become a new economic growth point to revitalize Shaanxi? Shaanxi Province has clearly put forward the concept of green mining that is in harmony with nature in the next five years. It is to respect nature, conform to nature, protect nature, protect in development, and develop in protection. At the same time, the province will vigorously build a green production system, create a green living space, foster a green ecological environment, and build a green and beautiful home. The province has promoted the ecological beauty as a strategic task in Shaanxi Province to the overall economic and social development of Shaanxi Province. It has adopted the most stringent environmental protection and resource conservation policies and has made many policy provisions for the scientific development of mineral resources in Qinling and the further promotion of ecological environmental protection. In the exploitation and utilization of mineral resources in the Qinling region, Shaanxi Province began to strictly review the establishment of mineral rights, strictly control the quantity of mineral rights, strictly protect the ecological environment of the northern slope of the Qinling Mountains, crack down on illegal mining behaviors, and quickly resolve illegal activities, waste resources, and destroy coal mining. With regard to the environment and other issues, special rectification will be carried out for all the mines and sub-regions in the Qinling Mountains. The province stipulates that the Jialing River and Hanjiang River basins in the Qinling Mountains, the important ecological and protected areas in the north of the Qinling Mountains, water conservation areas, scenic spots, slopes along the mountains, and traffic arteries can be reduced within the visible range, and the mining activities can be completely stopped as soon as possible; Other existing mines, in accordance with the requirements of mining development and mining environmental protection policies, have reduced the number of mines by shutting down batches, integrating batches, and raising batches, and actively and steadily pushing forward mine rehabilitation. Shaanxi Province will also implement “six positions” for serious violations and need to ban mines, that is, relevant licenses are written off, revoked in place, production equipment and facilities are removed in place, employees are demobilized and placed in place, waste rock residues are cleaned up, major safety, The hidden dangers of geological disasters are eliminated and the ecological environment is restored.

Remediation is not all closed but meets the "green mine" standard

Xi Weishi, deputy secretary-general of Xi'an Municipal Government, said that the mine rectification does not immediately shut down the mine. Building stone mines are indispensable for supporting urban construction and meeting the needs of infrastructure and construction markets. Therefore, it is necessary to retain a small number of mines at this stage. According to the plan, by the end of 2015, illegal exploration and mining activities have been completely banned; before 2018, all prospecting rights have been withdrawn; by the end of 2020, the mining rights will be controlled within 17 or less, reaching the national green mine construction standards, and the number of mines in the city Reduced by 72% in 2014. The scope of remediation has expanded from quarrying mines to all mines including metal mines, and has increased the threshold for mines, aiming to gradually reduce the number of mines, and to ensure that the retained mines are scientific in mining methods, advanced in production technology, and managed by enterprises. Standards, ecological environment protection in mining areas, and social harmony in mining areas meet the national “green mine” standards. Since the beginning of this year, Shaanxi’s mining environmental protection and management efforts have been intensified. The mining remediation measures have been severe and the governance responsibilities have been further implemented, which has led to a decrease in the province’s mining industry’s Hugan and indiscriminate activities. The development of mining industry has started to improve significantly, and green mining development has begun. Become the mainstream of Shaanxi mining development.