Mineral Exploration Licenses for Foreign Investors
Exploration is the pure cash-burning phase of a mining project: the company drills, analyses and reports for years before a single tonne can be sold. For a foreign…
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Resource Tax and Environmental Fees on Mining
Every tonne of mineral leaving a mine carries two output-based levies at once: resource tax and the environmental protection fee. Company accountants often merge the two into one…
Read article ↗Upstream Oil and Gas: Petroleum Contracts
The first thing to state plainly: petroleum sits outside the Law on Geology and Minerals. Article 1(2) of Law 54/2024/QH15 excludes petroleum from its scope, and upstream activity…
Read article ↗Environmental Protection Fees on Mining
The environmental protection fee on mining is smaller than resource tax but the most quietly back-assessed levy of all, because it runs on monthly declared output and gets…
Read article ↗Limestone Mining for Cement: Permits and Environment
A limestone mine for cement is a mine ‘bound’ to a single plant: its reserves have value only while the cement plant operates, yet the mine licence and…
Read article ↗EPC Contracts for Mineral Processing Plants
A mineral processing plant is the kind of project where an EPC contract fails in the most expensive way: the plant is built on schedule but never reaches…
Read article ↗Trading Minerals: Invoices and Legal Origin
Mineral trading is the stage where illegal minerals blend into the legal chain, so the law places an origin-proof burden on every transaction: ore without invoices and origin…
Read article ↗Pollution from Mineral Processing: Plant Liability
The beneficiation and smelting plant is the highest-value stage of the mineral chain — and the most polluting: process wastewater carries chemicals and heavy metals, and the tailings…
Read article ↗Common Construction Minerals: Decentralized Licensing
The first question for every stone, sand and fill project is ‘where do we apply’ — and the answer changed fundamentally under the Law on Geology and Minerals…
Read article ↗Mining Joint Ventures with Vietnamese Partners
The most familiar structure in Vietnamese mining pairs one side holding the licence and local relationships with another holding capital and technology. A joint venture stitches those halves…
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