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Catalogue of Minerals for which Mining Rights Transfer Proceeds are Collected Based on the Rate of Mining Rights Transfer Revenue

Last updated: 8 December 2023

The regulation introduces a comprehensive catalogue comprising 144 types of minerals, each with distinct assignment income rates. Based on these specified rates, holders of mining rights are obligated to submit a specific portion of their sales income to the relevant departments.
The minerals and income assignment rates (%) are as follows:

  1. Oil, natural gas, shale gas, natural gas hydrate - 0.8 for land mining rights, 0.6 for sea area mining rights
  2. Coal bed methane - 0.3 
  3. Coal, stone coal (raw mineral products) - 2.4 
  4. Uranium, thorium (mineral processing products) - 1 
  5. Oil shale, oil sand - 0.8 
  6. Natural asphalt (raw mineral products) - 2.3 
  7. Geothermal - (T<60℃) 3.6, (60℃≤T<90℃) 4.2, (T≥90℃) 4.7
  8. Iron, manganese, chromium, vanadium, titanium - 1.8 
  9. Copper, bauxite, nickel, cobalt - 1.2
  10. Tungsten, tin, antimony, molybdenum, lead, zinc, mercury - 2.3 
  11. Magnesium, bismuth - 1.8 
  12. Gold, silver, platinum group (platinum, palladium, ruthenium, osmium, iridium, rhodium) (mineral processing products) - 2.3 
  13. Rare metals (niobium, tantalum, beryllium, lithium, zirconium, strontium, rubidium, cesium), scattered metals (germanium, gallium, indium, thallium, hafnium, rhenium, cadmium, selenium, tellurium) - 1.4 
  14. Light rare earths (lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, neodymium) (mineral processing products) - 2.3 
  15. Medium and heavy rare earths (samarium, europium, yttrium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, holmium, erbium, thulium, ytterbium, lutetium, scandium) (mineral processing products) - 4
  16. Phosphorus (raw mineral products) - 2.1
  17. Graphite (mineral processing products) - 1.7
  18. Fluorite (ordinary fluorite, optical fluorite) (mineral processing products) - 2.4
  19. Boron - (mineral processing products) - 2.3
  20. Diamond, natural sulphur, sulphide, crystals (piezoelectric crystals, fused crystals, optical crystals), corundum, rutile, blueschist, wollastonite, wollastonite, sodalite, talc, asbestos, blue asbestos, mica, feldspar, garnet, feldspar, tremolite, tremolite, vermiculite, zeolites, alumina, gypsum (incl. gypsum), barite, poisonous baryte, manganese (anhydrous manganese, calcareous manganese, sodium-magnesium white alum), natural soda ash, clinoptilolite, calcite, magnesite, tourmaline, pigmented minerals (ochre, pigmented topaz), potash-bearing rocks, iodine, bromine, arsenic (raw mineral products) - 2.9 
  21. Marl, chalk, vein quartz (for metallurgy, glass), siltstone, natural oilstone, potash-bearing sand shale, diatomaceous earth, kaolin, ceramic clay, bentonite, bauxite, mafic rock, perlite, turquoise, volcanic ash, volcanic slag, pumice, coarse-faced rock (for cement, cast stone), peat (raw mineral products) - 3.1
  22. Gemstones, topaz, jade, agate, craft crystal (raw mineral products) - 8
  23. Groundwater, mineral water (raw mineral products) - 3
  24. Carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulfide gas, radon, helium (raw mineral products) - 0.8
  25. Potassium salt, mineral salt (rock salt, lake salt, natural brine), magnesium salt - (mineral processing products) - 2.8

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