Mine Laws (RA 7076, DAO 2015-03, DAO 1997-30)
1.5 meters, 1.3 meters
Horizontal access openings shall have at least an effective height of _______________ and an effective width of ___________________.
50 meters
To ensure public safety, no underground opening shall be allowed within a radius of _____________ from roads, cemetery, buildings, watersheds and other structures.
15 centimeters
Toeboards shall be at least ____________ in height, made of wood, steel or other suitable materials and securely fastened in place.
1.5 meters, 1.3 meters
Vertical and Inclined openings shall have a dimension of at least ____________ by ____________.
Stope
large underground opening, usually inclined or vertical, but may also be horizontal.
Board
may declare future small-scale mining areas.
Claimowner
refers to a holder of an existing mining right.
Two-Year Work Program
schedule of engineered small-scale mining, including its budgetary requirement duly prepared and signed by a licensed Mining Engineer.
Department
shall establish assay laboratories to cross-check the integrity of custom mills and to render metallurgical and laboratory services to miners.
Small-Scale Mining Contractor
small-scale miners organized as an individual miner or cooperative registered with the SEC or with the appropriate government agency.
People's Small-Scale Mining Protection Fund
this fund shall be used primarily for information dissemination and training of small-scale miners on safety, health, and environmental protection, and the establishment of mine rescue and recovery teams including the procurement of rescue equipment necessary in cases of emergencies such as landslides, tunnel collapse, or the like. The fund shall also be made available to address the needs of the small-scale miners brought about by accidents and/or fortuitous events.
Compressor Mining
underwater small-scale mining with the workers/miners using compressed/pressurized air for breathing.
Winze
vertical or near vertical underground opening driven downward from one level to another.
Safety Inspector
A Safety Organization shall be headed by _____________________ duly accredited by the appropriate government agency.
2 years
A contract shall have a term of ________________, renewable subject to verification by the Board for like periods as long as the contractor complies the provisions set forth in this Act, and confers upon the contractor the right to mine within the contract area.
10 meters
Adequate warning signs shall be provided at approaches of at least __________ from the working areas.
Danger
All abandoned working areas shall be barricaded and a _____________ sign shall be posted or back-filled when necessary.
Central Bank
All gold produced by small-scale miners in any mineral area shall be sold to the _________________, or its duly authorized representative, which shall buy it at prices competitive with those prevailing in the world market regardless of volume or weight.
Board
All persons undertaking small-scale mining activities shall register as miners with the __________ and may organize themselves into cooperatives in order to qualify for the awarding of a people's small-scale mining contract.
2 x 2 x 18 inches
All shafts or winzes (sinking) shall be provided with standard ladders (____________________rungs spaced 12" apart). The ladders shall be installed in staggered pattern every three (3) timber sets and shall be provided with landing platforms.
1.5 meters, 1.3 meters
All underground openings such as, main opening/access/principal passage ways, whether horizontal or inclined, shall at least have an effective height of ____________ and an effective width of _______________.
1,000 pesos, 10,000 pesos
Any contractor/permittee/operator/worker who violates any of the provisions of this Order or commits any unsafe act that will endanger himself, other persons and/or property shall be penalized by a fine of not less than ______________ or more than _____________ or suspension/cancellation of the permit/contract or both upon the discretion of the Board or its equivalent.
1.25 hectares, 20 hectares
Applied small scale mining area should not be less than _________________, and more than ____________.
3
At any given time during the shift, the maximum number of miners in one working face shall be?
1.5 meters
Bench height shall be limited to?
64
Board shall subdivide the meridional block into __________ parcels at 3.75" of latitude and 3.75" of longitude per parcel, containing an area of 1.25 hectares, more or less.
54 degrees Celsius
Cylinders are not designated for temperatures in excess of __________?
1.7 meters
Distance between timber sets shall be not more than ______________.
12
Distance between two (2) underground openings shall not be less than ______________ meters or 39 feet and 4 inches apart to maintain an adequate pillar. Any deviation of the rule will be subject to the approval of the Board or its equivalent.
Safety Inspector
For Surface Mines, a ___________________ shall be required for every fifty (50) workers/miners or less.
25, 25
For Underground Mines, a Safety Inspector shall be required for every ____________ workers/miners or at least one (1) Safety Inspector for every opening with less than ________ workers/miners.
Safety Inspector
For Underwater Mining Nearshore, a ___________________shall be required for every operation.
25%
For vein type or alluvial gold and/or silver or chromite deposits having a mineralized area exceeding 500 hectares, a maximum of ______ of the mining permit/contract area above 500 hectares may be declared as Minahang Bayan.
DAO 28 s. 1992
Guidelines in the issuance of special permits for pebble picking along beaches.
Secretary
He, upon recommendation of the Director, shall withdraw the status of the people's small-scale mining area when it can no longer be feasibly operated on a small-scale mining basis or when the safety, health and environmental conditions warrant that the same shall revert to the State for proper disposition.
2 x 2 x 1.5 meters
In broken grounds, the maximum dimension of stopes shall be?
6 x 2 x6 meters
In grounds that are competent, the maximum dimension of stopes shall be?
Government
In mining areas where the private sector is unable to establish custom mills, the ________________ shall construct such custom mills upon the recommendation of the Board based on the viability of the project.
10,000,000 pesos
Investment in entire term of Small-scale mining contract, including renewals.
2 meters
Minimum allowable berm for working area shall be?
20 hectares
Minimum area to be declared as Minahang Bayan should not exceed?
1 x 1.5 meters
Minimum size of the opening of test pits shall be?
1 meter
Minimum width of trenches shall be?
8 meters
No mine workings shall be allowed to approach nearer than eight ___________ to any part of a shaft or any other openings where there is known or suspected accumulation of water.
10 meters, 50 meters
No underground opening shall be driven or caused to be driven under rivers, sea or any known accumulation of standing or running water on the surface with less than _________ of back or thickness from the true river bed and the roof of the mine working in massive, unbroken or unfractured igneous rocks nor be less than _________ back or thickness when the roof of the mine working is broken or fractured rocks. The true depth of the river bed shall be determined at different points. Deviations from the above requirement shall be subject to the approval of the Board.
100 pesos/hectare
Occupation Fee for small scale mining contractor
15%
People's Small-scale Mining Protection Fund which shall be _______ the national government's share of the internal revenue tax or production share due the Government.
Existing Mining Right
Perfected and subsisting claim, lease, license, or permit covering a mineralized area prior to declaration of People's Small Scale Mining Act.
2 x 1.5 x 2 meters
Pillars between stopes in broken grounds shall have a maximum dimension of?
1 x 1 x 1 meter
Pillars between stopes shall have a minimum dimension in competent grounds.
House Bill no. 10516, Senate Bill no. 1333
RA 7076 is a consolidation of what two bills?
People's Small Scale Mining Act of 1991
RA 7076 is also known as?
June 27, 1991
RA 7076 was approved on?
5%
Royalty fee from gross output for small scale mining projects inside mineral reservations.
1.5%
Royalty for claimowner for SSM's in an area with mining rights for metallic minerals.
1%
Royalty for claimowner for SSM's in an area with mining rights for non-metallic minerals.
DAO 05 s. 1989
Rules and regulations governing the granting of processor's permit related to small-scale gold mining.
1:50,000 or 1:10,000
Scale of location map used in proposed small-scale mining contract area prepared and sealed by a deputized geodetic engineer.
20,000 pesos, 100,000 pesos
Secretary may impose fines against the violator of rules and regulations of permit, and noncompliance in an amount of not less than _____________________ and not more than __________________________.
20 degrees
Shafts, raises (vertical or inclined sinkings) and winzes exceeding __________ inclination shall be provided with ladder ways.
Board
Small Scale Mining Contract may be cancelled by the Secretary thru the ____________.
20,000 pesos
Small-Scale Mining Contract fee for gold, silver, chromite.
10,000 pesos
Small-Scale Mining Contract fee for non-metallic minerals
1,000 pesos
Small-Scale Mining License Fee
1 meter
Standard railing guards shall be at least ______________ in height?
2 meters
Standard railing guards shall have posts not more than __________ apart and an intermediate rail halfway between top rail and the floor.
2 years, renewable for like periods, but not exceeding 6 years.
Term of Small Scale Mining Contract
Board
The ____________ shall issue licenses for the operation of custom mills and other processing plants subject to pollution control and safety standards
20%, 0.5%
The contractor/permittee/association shall provide and maintain in all active underground workings an adequate supply of fresh air containing not less than _____ oxygen and not more than _______ carbon dioxide.
Director
The depth or length of tunnel or adit shall not exceed the recommended depth or length by the ________________, as represented by the Regional Director concerned.
Mineral Processing Zones
The establishment and operation of safe and efficient custom mills to process minerals or ore-bearing materials shall be limited to _____________________________ duly designated by the local government unit concerned upon recommendation of the Board.
10mm, 16mm
The minimum diameter of prescribed hoisting rope shall be _________ and _________ for other kinds of hoisting ropes.
50,000 MT
Volume of ore produced in a small-scale mining contract annually should not exceed?
10 meters
Welding machines shall be located at a safe distance of at least _____________ from any tank or wash tank containing oil.
Cooperative
a group of people duly registered by the Cooperative Development Authority.
Association
a group of people duly registered by the concerned Local Government Unit.
Custom Mill
a plant established by the government or thru a private sector within mineral processing zones intended for the mineral processing of ores, tailings, and/or mine wastes from small-scale mining for a fee.
Annual Safety and Health Program
a program approved by the Regional office concerned, which ensures just, safe and humane working environment for small scale miners or mineral processing plant workers.
Underwater Mining Nearshore
all excavations or workings for the purpose of finding/exploiting of minerals under bodies of water such as seas, lakes, rivers, etc.
Potential Environmental Impact Management Plan
an environmental management and rehabilitation plan for the life of the small-scale mining contract/mineral processing license, approved by the Regional Office concerned.
Miner
any individual who is actively engaged in the development, extraction and/or utilization of minerals.
Operator
any person or entity who has an agreement duty registered with the Board or its equivalent to undertake a special job related to small-scale mining and sand and gravel operations.
20 hectares
equivalent to 1/4 of a meridional block of 30" latitude and 30" longitude.
Board
is hereby authorized to declare and set aside people's small-scale mining areas in sites onshore suitable for smallscale mining, subject to review by the Secretary, immediately giving priority to areas already occupied and actively mined by small-scale miners before August 1, 1987.
Board
issues OTP for Small scale miners.
Shaft
primary vertical or near vertical opening connecting the surface with underground workings for purposes of men, material, ore and mine waste passage and ventilation.
Small-scale miners
refer to Filipino citizens who, individually or in the company of other Filipino citizens, voluntarily form a cooperative duly licensed by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources to engage, under the terms and conditions of a contract, in the extraction or removal of minerals or ore-bearing materials from the ground.
Mineralized areas
refer to areas with naturally occurring mineral deposits of gold, silver, chromite, kaolin, silica, marble, gravel, clay and like mineral resources.
Processor
refers to a person issued a license to engage in the treatment of minerals or ore-bearing materials such as by gravity concentration, leaching beneficiation, cyanidation, cutting, sizing, polishing and other similar activities.
Government Production Share
refers to a share of the government in a small scale mining contract as may be determined by the Board.
Mining Plan
refers to a two-year program and activities and methodologies employed in the extraction and production of minerals or ore-bearing materials, including the financial plan and other resources in support thereof.
Active Mining Area
refers to an area under actual exploration, development, utilization, or commercial production as determined by the Secretary.
Small-scale mining contractor
refers to an individual or a cooperative of small-scale miners, registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission or other appropriate government agency, which has entered into an agreement with the State for the small-scale utilization of a plot of mineral land within a people's small-scale mining area.
Active mining area
refers to areas under actual exploration, development, exploitation or commercial production as determined by the Secretary after the necessary field investigation or verification including contiguous and geologically related areas belonging to the same claimowner and/or under contract with an operator, but in no case to exceed the maximum area allowed by law.
Small-scale mining contract
refers to co-production, joint venture or mineral production sharing agreement between the State and a small-scale mining contractor for the small-scale utilization of a plot of mineral land.
Small-scale mining
refers to mining activities which rely heavily on manual labor using simple implements and methods and do not use explosives or heavy mining equipment.
Existing mining right
refers to perfected and subsisting claim, lease, license or permit covering a mineralized area prior to its declaration as a people's small-scale mining area.
Secretary
refers to the Secretary of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources.
License
refers to the privilege granted to a person to legitimately pursue his occupation as a small-scale miner or processor under this Act.
Director
refers to the regional executive director of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources.
