The Office of the State Council Security Commission issued a circular to severely crack down on illegal activities of illegal mining of mineral resources and serious illegal production and construction in mines

According to the public account of the Ministry of Emergency Management, the Office of the State Council Security Commission recently issued a circular on severely cracking down on illegal activities of stealing mineral resources and serious illegal production and construction in mines, requiring deeply absorbing the lessons of accident cases, further standardizing the order of mineral resources exploitation, and strengthening safe production work.

The circular proposes that all localities should focus on investigating six types of illegal mining of mineral resources, including unlicensed mining, mining instead of exploration, mining instead of construction, not according to approved mineral types, and beyond the scope of approved mining areas; the act of stealing mineral resources in the name of various project constructions; the act of secretly mining mineral resources in the form of secretly using hidden forts and other forms of secretly using places such as factories and courtyards of legally operated enterprises as a cover; the acts of illegally mining mineral resources such as mines and abandoned mines that have been closed and banned without authorization; in remote mountainous areas, Acts of stealing mineral resources in special areas such as remote forest areas and shallow mine outcrops; acts of purchasing, storing, transporting, processing and selling pirated mining products, as well as providing shelter, electricity, machinery and equipment, means of transport, civilian explosives, and storage sites for the illegal mining of mineral resources. Acts of stealing mineral resources discovered through investigation should be investigated and dealt with in a serious and expeditious manner in accordance with law; those suspected of committing crimes should be transferred to judicial organs for criminal prosecution in accordance with law. In areas where the problem of illegal mining of mineral resources is conspicuous, it is necessary to carry out a full-coverage inspection of each township and ravine.

The circular is clear, and a long-term mechanism for timely discovery and severe crackdown on illegal mining of mineral resources is perfected and perfected. All localities should consolidate the responsibilities of counties and townships, improve the multi-departmental information sharing mechanism, and timely discover clues to problems through various channels such as electricity, employment, transportation, and sales, so as to strictly prevent leakage of pipes from getting out of control. It is necessary to further implement the division of responsibilities and responsibilities of natural resources, public security, emergency management, mine safety supervision and supervision, energy, ecological environment, transportation, market supervision, and electric power to crack down on the illegal exploitation of mineral resources, establish a rapid response work mechanism from discovery to investigation, and intensify the crackdown on the whole process of illegal mining activities. The competent departments for natural resources at all levels should strengthen the supervision and control of mineral resources, explore the extension of the responsibility and authority for discovering and stopping the illegal exploitation of mineral resources to townships, towns, and village groups, and ensure that they are cracked down on as soon as they appear and investigated when they are discovered. With regard to the closure and prohibition of mines, it is necessary to request the local people's governments to issue a notice of the closure of mines, and the relevant departments should revoke relevant licenses, stop power supply, water supply, and explosives for civilian use, dismantle power supply and ground facilities, blow up closed wellheads, fill in sites, restore landforms, dismiss employees, and strengthen routine inspections to prevent the recurrence of the dead.

With regard to severely cracking down on the serious illegal production and construction of mines, the circular requires that the relationship between energy supply and supply assurance and safe production be correctly handled, scientifically and rationally approve production capacity, release high-quality production capacity in an orderly manner, resolutely rectify acts such as increasing production capacity without approval, expanding the scope of mines that increase production and supply without authorization, organizing "three super" production operations in violation of regulations, and including coal mines with irregular mining continuity in the list of increased production and supply. For coal mines, it is necessary to severely crack down on illegal acts such as stopping production and rectifying illegal mining in coal mines, technologically transformed coal mines that do not have the conditions for safe production, and production of coal mines exceeding the approved capacity; for non-coal mines, it is necessary to focus on small and medium-sized mining enterprises such as iron, gold, molybdenum, and copper, which have risen more in price, and severely crack down on illegal subcontracting and subcontracting, and entrustment with contracts.

The notice requires that the safety control of suspended mines and mines that are about to be closed and withdrawn should be strengthened. For the suspension of production and work to rectify mines, the rectification plan must clarify the rectification content, rectification time, rectification responsible person, safety measures and the number of people going down the well, and after the consent of the local mine safety supervision department and inform the resident mine safety supervision agency, personnel can be arranged to enter the well for rectification; the local mine safety supervision department should implement special personnel stationed in the mine to keep an eye on, supervise rectification, and the resident mine safety supervision agency should clearly contact the responsible person and adopt remote monitoring, inspection and spot checks to supervise the rectification situation. For mines that have been suspended for a long time, comprehensive control measures such as installing "electronic seals", stopping or restricting power supply, and stopping the supply of explosives for civilian use should be adopted, and the inspectors should be clarified to strictly prevent open stops and secret openings. For mines that are about to be closed and withdrawn, it is necessary to clarify the safety supervision measures during the closure and withdrawal period, implement the personnel stationed in the mine, strictly prohibit the illegal setting of the "withdrawal period" and "transition period", and strictly prohibit the illegal subcontracting of underground withdrawal projects to ensure a safe and orderly exit.

The circular emphasizes that accountability and social supervision should be strengthened. All localities should strengthen supervision and inspection of the work of cracking down on illegal activities of illegal mining of mineral resources and serious illegal production and construction in mines, and conduct a retrospective investigation of responsibility for those who do not implement their responsibilities and do not do their work effectively. It is necessary to conscientiously implement the "Special Provisions on the Prevention of Safety Accidents in Coal Mine Production", and where illegal coal mines are discovered in the areas under the jurisdiction of the township or town people's governments and no effective measures have been taken to stop them, and where 2 or more illegal coal mines are discovered within 1 month within 1 month within the area under the jurisdiction of the people's governments at the county level and no effective measures have been taken, the relevant clues shall be promptly transferred to the discipline inspection and supervision organs for serious accountability and accountability. Where it is discovered that public employees have derelicted their duties or even served as "protective umbrellas," the relevant clues are promptly transferred to the discipline inspection and supervision organs for serious handling. Cases of illegal mining of mineral resources and serious illegal production and construction in mines should be promptly exposed and investigated, so that a case can be investigated and handled, a piece of education is conducted, and one party is warned. It is necessary to establish and improve the reward system for the masses to report, make public the telephone numbers and mailboxes for reporting, and encourage the broad masses of staff and workers and the masses of the people to actively report the illegal production and construction of mineral resources and mines.