RULE-15

BALOCHISTAN MINERAL RULES, 2002 BALOCHISTAN MINERAL RULES, 2002 [Gazette of Balochistan, Extraordinary, 9th March, 2002] No. S.O.(MR)4-6/2002, dated 8-1-2002.--In exercise of the powers conferred by section 2, of the Regulation of Mines and Oil-Fields and Mineral Development (Government Control) Act, 1948, (XXIV of 1948) the Government of Balochistan is pleased to make the flowing Rules:-- PART III MINERAL TITLES AND MINERAL CONCESSIONS Division 1 General 15. Directions to mineral title or mineral concession.- (1) The licensing authority may, with due regard to good reconnaissance, exploration or mining practices, by notice in writing to the holder of a mineral title or a mineral concession gives directions to the holder in relation to- (a) the carrying out of reconnaissance operations, exploration/prospecting operations and mining operations, including any works connected therewith; (b) the conservation of any natural resources, including mineral resources, and the prevention of the waste of such resources; (c) the protection and preservation of the surface of mines or works and of buildings, roads, railways and other structures and enclosures on or above the surface of land, and the conditions under which any such buildings, roads, railways, structures and enclosures may be undermined; (d) the construction, erection, maintenance, operation use or removal of structures, equipment and other goods used in connection with the exploration for, or the mining or conveyance of, minerals; (e) the protection of the environment including the prevention and combating of pollution of the air or land which arises or may possibly arise in the course of the operations involved ill exploration or mining for any mineral or after such operations have ceased; (f) the making safe of undermined ground and of dangerous slimes, tailings, dams, waste dumps, ash dumps, shafts, holes, trenches or excavations of whatever nature made in the course of exploration or mining operation, and the proper abandonment of mines; (e) the taking, preservation and furnishing to the licensing authority of cores, cuttings or samples of minerals from mines or excavations; (h) the submission to the licensing authority of reports, returns and other information; (i) the taking of logs or directional surveys or the making of other investigations; (j) the creation of safety zones in relation to structures erected on land to which the mineral title or mineral concession relates; (k) the cessation of mineral operations to the extent of any encroachment by the holder of a mineral title or a mineral concession upon any area not included in the mineral title or in the mineral concession. (2) Where the licensing authority is satisfied that the holder of a mineral title or a mineral concession has failed to comply with any direction specified in a notice under sub-rule (1), within the period so specified or such further period as the authority may in writing allow on good cause shown, the authority may - (a) cause to be taken such steps as may be necessary to comply with the direction; and (b) recover from the holder as a debt due to the Government the costs incurred in connection with the taking of such steps.