FLAT Legal Journal
Mining-right auctions are the State’s mechanism for letting market price — rather than administrative relationships — decide who mines areas of competitive interest. But winning the auction is…
Read article ↗In the investigation record of every serious mine accident, one name always appears: the mine’s operating director (mine manager). This is the office carrying the heaviest personal safety…
Read article ↗Peat sits at the most awkward junction of resources policy: it is at once a licensable mineral and a wetland soil layer that stores carbon and holds water…
Read article ↗Sea sand entered pilot exploitation amid a severe shortage of fill sand for delta infrastructure projects — but every cubic metre sucked from the seabed touches marine ecosystems,…
Read article ↗Mining companies carry one of the heaviest periodic reporting loads of any business type: mineral activity reports, environmental and monitoring reports, resource-tax and environmental-fee declarations, and labour-safety reports.…
Read article ↗Buying a mine is not buying a factory: the core asset lies underground and exists on paper only through reserve reports, a time-limited licence and a train of…
Read article ↗Many mining companies in Vietnam ask a question with an uncomfortable answer: ‘Is ESG mandatory?’ — No, in the sense of a standalone ESG report under Vietnamese law…
Read article ↗Mine inspections never arrive when a company is ready — and the heaviest-penalised mines are rarely unlicensed ones; they are licensed mines that drifted off their approved design,…
Read article ↗To mine below the water table, a mine must pump continuously — and that technical act is an independent water-resource exploitation activity in the eyes of the law.…
Read article ↗Reserves are the number the whole mining project stands on: grant fees are computed on reserves, tax on output, M&A value on remaining reserves. The law therefore places…
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