Mine buying and selling is against the law, to mine, must be approved by the minerals management department, the approval shall not destroy the barren mountains that have been greened.
Mineral Resources Law, Article 32, mining mineral resources, must comply with the provisions of the law relating to environmental protection, to prevent pollution of the environment. Mining mineral resources, should save land. Cultivated land, grassland, forest land damaged by mining, mining enterprises shall take reclamation and utilization, planting trees and grasses or other utilization measures according to local conditions. Mining of mineral resources to other people's production, life damage, shall be responsible for compensation, and take the necessary remedial measures.
Article 35 of the State on the collective mining enterprises and individual mining to implement positive support, rational planning, proper guidance, strengthen the management of the policy, to encourage the collective mining enterprises to mine the mineral resources within the scope of the State designated, allowing individuals to dig sporadic dispersed resources and can only be used as common building materials, sand, stone, clay, and for life for their own use to dig a small amount of minerals. Individuals are not permitted to mine mineral resources whose reserve sizes are suitable for mining by mining enterprises, specific types of minerals for which the State provides for protective mining, and other mineral resources for which the State prohibits individual mining. The state guides and helps collective mining enterprises and individual mining to continuously improve the technical level, resource utilization and economic efficiency.