Govt issues new regulation on mineral commodities processing
Friday, February 10 2012 - 03:06 AM WIB
Under the new Energy and Mineral Resources Minister regulation No.7/2012, all metal?based and non-metal based mineral commodities should be processed to their minimum form of processed product.
The purification processing of each mineral commodity is based on a number of considerations such as on the need to increase added value from mineral commodity production and to ensure that the mineral production will be able to encourage processing industry at home. The requirement is also expected to be able to increase the country?s income from the production of mineral resources.
The new regulation also stipulates that side products from the processing or purification of metal-based mineral commodity such as copper, tin lead, zinc, gold and silver should also be processed at home according to their minimum processing limit.
The processing requirement is also imposed on side products still having economic value from the production of non-metal based mineral commodities should also be processed at a local processing industry.
The mineral commodities which should be processed before exporting include all ores forms of copper, gold, silver, tin, lead and zinc, chromium, molybdenum, platinum, bauxite, iron, iron sand, nickel and cobalt, mangan and antimony.
The category of non-metal mineral commodities include calcite, feldspar, kaolin, bentonite, zeolite, silica, zircon, and diamond, while those categorized as certain mineral commodities are toseki, marble, onyx stone, pearlite, slate. Granite, granodiorite, gabbro rock, peridotit and basalt, opal, alsedon, chert, jasper, chrysoprase, garnet, jade and topaz.
Those who do not abide by the regulation will receive written warning from the authority, and they could lose their permits or their production activities are shut down if they are still unable to abide by the regulation.
Editing by Roffie Kurniawan