The Ministry of Natural Resources issued green mine construction standards for nine major industries

The Ministry of Natural Resources recently released the "non-metallic mining industry green mine construction Code" and other nine industry standards announcement. This is the first national green mine construction industry standard released in the world, marking that China's green mine construction has entered a new stage of "legal compliance", and will play a strong support and guarantee role in the green development of China's mining industry.

The nine industry standards released by the Ministry of Natural Resources include "Green Mine Construction Code for non-metallic mining Industry" (DZ/T 0312-2018), "Green Mine Construction Code for Chemical Industry" (DZ/T 0313-2018), "Green Mine Construction Code for Gold Industry" (DZ/T) 0314-2018), "Green Mine Construction Code for Coal Industry" (DZ/T 0315-2018), "Green Mine Construction Code for sand and gravel Industry" (DZ/T 0316-2018), "Green Mine Construction Code for onshore Oil and Gas Mining Industry" (DZ/T 0317-2018) Green Mine Construction Code for Cement Limestone (DZ/T 0318-2018), Green Mine Construction Code for Metallurgical Industry (DZ/T 0319-2018), and Green Mine Construction Code for non-ferrous Metal Industry (DZ/T 0320-2018) will be implemented from October 1, 2018.

Since the development of green mine construction in China, gratifying achievements have been made. From 2011 to 2014, the former Ministry of Land and Resources actively promoted the green mine pilot work in accordance with the idea of "planning overall, government guidance, enterprise main body, association promotion, policy support, pilot first, and overall promotion", and selected 661 national green mine pilot units in four batches, setting up a number of green mine construction models. It has played a leading role in demonstration. Green development and utilization and green and harmonious development have become the consensus of the mining industry. The successful experience accumulated by the mining enterprises that carried out the pilot project in the early stage not only has a good demonstration and reference significance for other mines, but also lays a foundation and explores the formation of system supply and standards.

However, on the whole, the proportion of national green mine pilot units is still low, and the standards are different. In order to comprehensively promote the process of green mine construction and realize the goal of "basically forming a green mine pattern by 2020" clearly defined in the national mineral resources plan, in 2016, under the guidance of the relevant departments of the former Ministry of Land and Resources, in accordance with the principles of overall planning, reasonable structure, scientific objectives, practical and easy to operate, The Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, together with relevant industry associations and companies, carried out a study on green mine construction requirements. After extensively soliciting opinions and suggestions from mining enterprises and competent authorities in various industries for revision, the draft green mine construction specifications for coal, oil and gas, gold, metallurgy, non-ferrous, non-metallic, chemical, sand and cement industries were submitted for review in December 2017. On December 17, 2017, it was reviewed by the sub-technical Committee of the Standardization of the Conservation and Intensive Use of Mineral Resources of the National Land and Resources Standardization Technical Committee, and the green mine construction specification was completed in January 2018 (draft for approval).

It is understood that the green mine construction standards released this time are mainly from the mining environment, resource development methods, comprehensive utilization of resources, energy conservation and emission reduction, scientific and technological innovation and digital mining, enterprise management and corporate image and other six aspects, according to the characteristics of each industry to make corresponding requirements. The combination of the formulation of the standard and production practice fully reflects its scientific and advanced nature, while taking into account the actual situation and development level of green mine construction in various industries in China at the present stage, to ensure the operability of the standard.

The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Natural Resources said that the preparation principle of the green mine construction standards in the nine major industries is to promote the rational use of resources, energy conservation and emission reduction, protect the ecological environment and the harmony of the mine as the main goal, and ultimately achieve the coordination and unification of the economic benefits, ecological benefits and social benefits of resource development, and provide technical and management support for the development of green mining and the construction of green mines. At the same time, through the formulation of standards, fully mobilize the enthusiasm of mining enterprises, strengthen the self-discipline of the industry, so that mining enterprises will efficiently use resources, protect the environment, promote the harmony of the external requirements into the internal power of enterprise development, consciously assume the economic and intensive use of resources, energy conservation and emission reduction, environmental reconstruction, land reclamation, and drive local economic and social development of the enterprise responsibility.