China News Service, September 11. According to the WeChat official account of the Ministry of Natural Resources, on September 11, at the green development results conference of the China International Mining Conference, a number of national and international standards and specifications in the geological and mining fields were officially released. Among them, the "Green Mine Construction Specifications" and the "Green Exploration Specifications for Solid Minerals" series of national standards are based on the actual development of my country's mining industry, forming the core institutional technical support to promote the green transformation of the mining industry, and providing unified specifications for the entire chain of green development of mineral resources; the English version of the "Technical Specifications for Core Digitalization" and the ISO 8616 "Technical Specifications for Monitoring of Karst Critical Zones" international standards are open to the world for sharing, and continue to share China's geological technology experience and governance solutions, providing multiple guarantees for the high-quality development of geological mining at home and abroad.
The "Green Mine Construction Specifications" series of national standards jointly issued by the Ministry of Natural Resources and the State Administration for Market Regulation has a total of 10 parts, achieving full coverage of my country's major mineral types such as coal, onshore oil and gas fields, ferrous metals, non-ferrous metals, chemicals, non-metals, gold, sand and gravel, cement limestone, geothermal mineral water, etc., marking that my country's green mine construction has entered a new stage of systematization, standardization, and standardization. This set of standards closely follows the six dimensions of resource extraction, comprehensive utilization of resources, green and low-carbon, ecological restoration, technological innovation and standardized management, and mining area environment. It sets differentiated construction requirements based on different mineral development methods and process characteristics, takes into account bottom-line constraints and development orientation, and runs through the entire life cycle of mine development. The standard establishes core principles such as ecological priority, conservation and intensification, and source prevention, establishes a binding indicator system centered on mining recovery rate, mineral processing recovery rate, and comprehensive utilization rate of associated minerals, promotes the "four modernizations" upgrade of mines, and implements solid waste, wastewater, waste gas reduction, and recycling Utilize and resource, build a green and low-carbon management and control system such as land conservation and intensive use, energy conservation and consumption reduction, and carbon accounting, promote ecological restoration from post-treatment to full-cycle management, encourage scientific and technological innovation of enterprises, consolidate corporate social responsibilities, help coordinate and win-win in mining areas, and serve rural revitalization.
The "Specifications for Green Exploration of Solid Minerals" is my country's first special national standard for green exploration in the field of solid mineral exploration. It is also a landmark achievement of the natural resource standardization system and the improvement of the green mining institutional chain. This standard system condenses the practical results of green exploration pilots across the country for more than ten years, integrates mature experience from various industries in various places, and covers the core links of the entire process such as green exploration and design, station construction, road construction, exploration project construction, "three wastes" disposal, site ecological restoration, supervision and inspection, and project acceptance. Specific to different geomorphological areas, differentiated construction control requirements are clarified. This specification proposes quantitative technical indicators such as land occupation constraints, low-disturbance exploration techniques, pollution prevention and control, and zone restoration for projects such as shallow wells, trench exploration, tunnels, and drilling. It starts from project establishment and evaluation, survey implementation, and site restoration. The full-chain closed-loop technology system from completion to completion can effectively solve the practical problems such as different environmental management and control scales in previous explorations, vague restoration standards, and lack of unified basis for acceptance, and provide unified technical support for the implementation of a new round of prospecting breakthrough strategic actions and strict adherence to ecological protection red lines.
While solidly promoting the green transformation of the domestic mining industry, my country's geological standardization work continues to expand internationally, accelerating the standardized export of mature technological achievements and governance experience. The China Geological Survey issued the English version of the standard "Rock Core Digitalization Technical Regulations" in the field of core digitization. It is compiled based on mature domestic industry standards and clarifies the definition and selection plan of six mainstream core digitalization technologies. It can effectively support cross-border geological scientific research cooperation, overseas geological project implementation and international technical exchanges.
ISO 8616 "Technical Specifications for Monitoring Karst Critical Zones" is the first international standard in the global karst field jointly prepared by China and many countries. It is also the first standard released since the establishment of the Karst Technical Committee of the International Organization for Standardization. This international standard is based on my country's domestic standards, standardizes the classification of key karst zone types, station network construction, indicator screening, data processing and information sharing, solves the pain point of inconsistent global karst monitoring data, and provides data support for studying karst carbon cycle and responding to climate change.
The centralized release of a number of national and international geological and mining standards has demonstrated the effectiveness of my country's geological and mining standardization construction and is an important practice in empowering high-quality development of the industry with standards. Internally, green exploration and green mining related standards have built a green institutional system for the entire chain of mineral development, escorting the green and low-carbon transformation of the mining industry; externally, my country has contributed Chinese wisdom to global geological governance through the export of technical standards and participation in the formulation of international standards.
In the next step, the Ministry of Natural Resources will focus on the implementation and international promotion of standards, continue to improve the geological and mining standard system, and promote the construction of domestic ecological civilization and global sustainable development with high standards.
