Recently, the Department of Land and Resources of Hunan Province issued the "2018 Mineral Development Management Work Points", emphasizing the comprehensive completion of mining rights clearance and withdrawal within natural reserves, strict on-site verification of mining rights application scope, and rejection of any applications that do not comply with relevant industrial policies and plans, safety and environmental conditions, to ensure timely completion of the central environmental protection inspection feedback problem rectification task by the end of June this year.
At the same time, carry out comprehensive clearance and withdrawal of mining rights involving national and provincial nature reserves, and effectively strengthen guidance on the clearance and withdrawal of mining rights issued by cities and counties. Actively cooperate in the delineation of ecological red lines, and properly handle the relationship between the delineation of ecological red lines and the protection of the legitimate rights and interests of established mining rights.

Hunan Department requires to accelerate the closure and elimination of backward small mines. According to the planning requirements, we will deepen the special treatment of open-pit mining of non-metallic minerals in the Xiangjiang River Basin, and resolutely close the open-pit mining of non-metallic minerals located in the prohibited mining areas. Conduct research on the integration and development of key mining resources, and carry out rectification and integration work in key mining areas such as the lead-zinc mining area in Huayuan County.
The Hunan Department emphasized that in accordance with the requirements of green mining construction, strict on-site verification of the scope of mining right applications should be carried out. Any application that does not comply with relevant industrial policies and plans, safety and environmental conditions will not be approved; Further improve the system for compiling and reviewing plans for the development and utilization of mineral resources, strictly control them, and reject those that do not meet the requirements. From mining layout, minimum mining scale, mining selection method; Three rates; Starting from indicators and other aspects, further improve the admission standards for major mineral development in the province, and raise the admission threshold.
In addition, the Hunan Department also emphasized the promotion of the construction of the mining rights market, and on the premise of complying with national industrial policies and mineral resource planning; There is pressure to maintain; Strictly transfer mining rights, focus on investing a batch of mineral water, geothermal, emerging building materials and other mining rights with minimal ecological damage and safety hazards to poverty-stricken areas, and promote economic development in poverty-stricken areas.
(Source: Department of Land and Resources of Hunan Province)