Peat Mining: Permits and Environment
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…
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Sea Sand Mining: Pilots and Marine Protection
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 ↗Periodic Reporting for Mining Businesses
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 ↗Valuing a Mine in M&A: Reserves, Licenses and Risks
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 ↗ESG in Mining: Sustainability Reporting
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 ↗Inspecting Mining Operations
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 ↗Groundwater in Mining: Permits and Protection
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.…
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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…
Read article ↗Mine Closure: Procedures, Rehabilitation and Post-Closure Liability
Closing a mine is not the day the operator stops digging and locks the gate. It is a legal procedure of its own: an approved mine-closure plan, accepted…
Read article ↗Industrial Explosives: Licensing and Control
Industrial explosives are the most tightly controlled consumable in a mining project: every kilogram must be paper-trailed from magazine to detonation, and a small loss incident can turn…
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