1. The basic principle of mineral resource survey evaluation and exploration policy formulation is to reform the geological exploration system in accordance with the requirements of establishing a socialist market economic system and realize the separate operation of public welfare geological survey and evaluation and commercial mineral resource exploration.

The state carries out public welfare geological surveys and evaluations to provide a basis for mineral resource planning and management decisions, provide basic information services for commercial mineral resource exploration, and reduce investment risks; through policy guidance and support, multiple channels of social investment are encouraged to develop businesses that meet market needs.

With commercial exploration as the main body, public welfare investigation and evaluation and commercial exploration mutually promote each other, creating a virtuous circle.

Organize and carry out public welfare geological surveys and evaluations, focusing on basic geological surveys and mineral resource prospect evaluations in areas with low levels of geological work.

Actively carry out basic geological work such as regional geological surveys, hydrogeological and environmental geological surveys, geophysical and geochemical prospecting remote sensing surveys, and strengthen basic survey work in areas with low levels of geological work in the west.

Prioritize the investigation and evaluation of mineral resource potential in the western region and the investigation and evaluation of national urgently needed minerals.

Based on the long-term strategic interests of the country, we should strengthen the investigation, evaluation, research and development of mineral resources in the international seabed area, improve our country's ability and status to participate in international seabed area affairs, and safeguard the country's resource rights and interests in the international seabed area.

The state encourages the use of social funds from multiple channels to carry out commercial mineral resource exploration that is guided by market demand and aimed at economic benefits.

Focus on encouraging the exploration of oil, natural gas, coal bed methane, environmentally friendly coal, geothermal, high-quality manganese ore, chromium, copper, gold, silver, nickel, cobalt, platinum group metals, potash and other important minerals with insufficient domestic resource supply; encourage exploration in the central and western regions

Regions, remote and ethnic minority areas and other economically underdeveloped areas with resource potential carry out mineral resource exploration to meet market needs; mining enterprises are encouraged to carry out mineral resource exploration in mining areas, especially around and deep in resource-depleted mining areas, to increase reserve resources,

Slow down production decline.

2. The policy for the development and utilization of mineral resources shall keep the total amount of mineral resources exploited consistent with the level of social and economic development.

Encourage the exploitation of mineral resources that are in short supply in the country, restrict the exploitation of mineral resources that are in oversupply, and implement production limits to preserve the value of advantageous minerals for export.

Strengthen the development and utilization of oil and natural gas in the western and maritime areas, increase crude oil production capacity, put natural gas development in an important position, and provide a stable and reliable resource base for the implementation of the "West-East Gas Transmission" project; actively support the development and utilization of coalbed methane resources,

Strengthen the extraction and utilization of coalbed methane in coal mine production.

Regulate the total amount of coal mining, limit the mining of high-sulfur coal and high-ash coal, strengthen the protective mining of high-quality coal, environmentally friendly coal and special coal types, actively develop and promote clean coal technology, and give priority to the development of coal gasification, liquefaction technology and coal washing.

Select processing and utilization technology.

Strengthen the development and utilization of uranium resources, focusing on in-ground leaching, heap leaching and on-site blasting leaching production, and appropriately develop conventional mining and smelting to ensure domestic demand for uranium.

Encourage the development and utilization of geothermal resources according to local conditions.

Encourage the mining of copper, gold, silver, tantalum, niobium and other minerals.

Restrict the mining of tungsten, tin, antimony, rare earth, molybdenum, mercury and other minerals, and strictly control the total amount of mining.

Control new bauxite mines, encourage existing bauxite mines to improve mining, selection and smelting technology and product quality, reduce production costs, and improve market competitiveness.

Strictly control the total mining volume of export advantageous minerals such as barite, fluorite, and magnesite.

Restrictions on asbestos mining.

No new pyrite mines will be built yet.

Expand the scale of potassium salt mining and research and develop agricultural application technologies for potassium-containing rocks.

Strengthen the development and utilization of environmentally friendly, energy-saving, and agricultural non-metallic minerals.

Encourage the mining of non-metallic minerals for building materials that meet the needs of regional economic development.

Encourage enterprises to rely on scientific and technological progress to expand non-metallic application fields, research and develop new non-metallic products, improve equipment levels, and vigorously develop deep processing.

3. Mineral resource protection policy The scale of mining must be compatible with the scale of mineral reserves in the mining area.

It is strictly prohibited to open large or small mines, open multiple mines, or mine indiscriminately.

Determine and control the minimum mining scale of mining areas according to local conditions.

For new mineral resource mining projects, mineral resource development and utilization plans must be strictly reviewed to ensure large-scale mining and intensive utilization of mineral resources.

For production mines that are significantly inconsistent with the scale of mining reserves and have serious resource damage and waste, they must, within a time limit, implement unified planning, rectification and mergers in accordance with the requirements for establishing a modern enterprise system, and take the road of large-scale and intensive production.

The state implements planned mining in accordance with the law and implements special protective measures for nationally planned mining areas, mining areas that are of great value to the national economy, and specific mineral types that the state plans to implement protective mining.

Within the scope of national planned mining areas, mining rights that are not commensurate with the scale of mineral deposit reserves shall not be established.

The mineral resources development and utilization plan submitted by the applicant for mining rights must comply with the approved overall development plan for the national planned mining area.

Enterprises without corresponding qualifications are prohibited from entering national planned mining areas, mining areas of important value to the national economy, and mineral areas suitable for the construction of large and medium-sized mines to exploit mineral resources.

The state takes effective measures to protect large and medium-sized, low-grade lean ore or refractory mineral deposits that cannot be economically developed and utilized at present, and no destructive mining is allowed.

Strengthen the protection of scarce resources such as coking coal.