How to rationally use mineral resources and how to protect mineral resources

Mineral resources. It refers to the aggregate that has industrial utilization value through geological mineralization to make the content of minerals or useful elements buried in the ground or exposed on the surface and have development and utilization value. Mineral resources are important natural resources and an important material basis for the development of social production.

Mineral resources are non-renewable resources.

Its reserves are limited. At present, there are more than 1,600 kinds of minerals known in the world, of which more than 80 kinds are widely used.

According to its characteristics and uses, it is usually divided into three categories: metallic minerals, non-metallic minerals and energy minerals.

It is the material basis for the development of extractive industries. The variety, distribution and reserves of mineral resources determine the possible development of the mining industry. Its quality, mining conditions and geographical location.

It directly affects the utilization value of mineral resources, construction investment and labor productivity of the mining industry.

production costs and process routes, etc., and for the primary processing industries (such as iron and steel, non-ferrous metals, basic chemicals and building materials, etc.) and the entire heavy industry.

The development and layout have an important impact. The regional combination characteristics of mineral resources affect the development direction of regional economy and the characteristics of industrial structure. The utilization and industrial value of mineral resources are closely related to the level of development of productive forces and technical and economic conditions, and with the progress of geological exploration, mining and processing technology, the breadth and depth of the utilization of mineral resources are constantly expanding.

According to Article 2 of the Detailed Rules for the Implementation of the Mineral Resources Law, the so-called mineral resources refer to the natural resources formed by geological processes and have utilization value, and are in solid, liquid and gaseous states.

At present, 171 minerals have been discovered in China. It can be divided into energy minerals (such as coal, oil, geothermal), metal minerals (such as iron, manganese, copper), and non-metallic minerals (such as diamond).

limestone, clay) and water and gas minerals (e.g. groundwater, mineral water, carbon dioxide.

gas) four categories.

Broad Implications of Mineral Resources Protection:

1) Rational development and utilization of mineral resources, optimization of resource allocation, and optimal depletion of mineral resources;

2) Restrict or prohibit unreasonable indiscriminate mining and excavation to prevent the loss, waste or destruction of mineral resources;

3) control the whole process of the development and utilization of mineral resources to reduce the environmental cost to a minimum;

4) Protect the ecological environment of the mining area and prevent the mine from becoming a barren land at the end of its life.

Do not dig indiscriminately, cherish the non-renewable resources that are currently used, and vigorously promote energy conservation and emission reduction, so as to reduce the use of property resources.

<>1. Further improve the legal system of environmental protection and governance.

2) Restrict or prohibit unreasonable indiscriminate mining and excavation to prevent the loss, waste or destruction of mineral resources;

3. Rationally develop and utilize mineral resources, optimize resource allocation, and achieve optimal depletion of mineral resources.

4. Increase investment in the scientific and technological progress of mines, and improve the scientific and technological level of mineral resources development.

5. Strictly implement the mine geological environment assessment system.

6. Establish a mine ecological environment information system.