East China’s Jiangxi province, a major rare-earths production base, will step up crackdown on illegal mining of strategic minerals such as lithium and rare earths in a special action that will run through the end of Oct 2023.
The province will take measures such as strict approval of mining rights, will step up the supervision of the whole process of mining and will focus on the rectification of the development and utilization of mineral resources, especially tungsten, rare earths, lithium and other strategic mineral resources, the local authority said.
The goal is to curb illegal activities such as unlicensed exploration and mining, indiscriminate mining, waste of mineral resources, and the illegal occupation of arable land, forest land and nature reserves, it said.
The province will investigate illegal transfers of mining rights and cross-border mining, it added.