Minerals And Mining (Health, Safety And Technical Regulations, 2012) (L.I. 2182)

Regulation 58(1) A holder or the manager of a surface mine shall at the request of the Chief Inspector cause accurate plans of workings, together with sections of the workings to be prepared by a certified surveyor and maintained and kept at an office in the mine by the manager.(2) The plans to be prepared and kept under sub-regulation (1) include(a) a general surface plan, of the mineral right which show(i) the boundaries of the mineral right;(ii) the outcrops and dip of the reef or reefs or other mineral of alluvial deposits known or which are being worked;(iii) open pits or surface workings, shafts if any, boreholes, reservoirs, tailing sites, railways, permanent pipelines, aerial cable ways, electric power lines and tramways erected or constructed for the use of the mine;(iv) buildings, water courses, and(v) other surface objects within the area of the surface of the land required for mining purposes;(b) a plan of the workings at different depths sufficiently numerous and suitably chosen to provide together with the plan made under paragraph (c) an approximate estimate of the ground being extracted; and(c) a plan that shows(i) traverse sections of the mine and workings suitably chosen to provide together with the plan made under paragraph (b) an approximate estimate of the ground, and the different heights of the ground being extracted, and(ii) the distinction between the mineral deposit and the different varieties of the country rock.(3) The plans required under sub-regulation (2), shall in the case of a plan under(a) paragraph (a), be revised and brought up to date during the months of June and December each year; and(b) paragraph (b), be revised and brought up to date every three months and the information contained in the plans shall be kept correct to the last measuring date.(4) The holder and manager of a mine shall keep records that show(a) the geological nature and widths of strata passed through;(b) the assay values of any reef or other mineral deposit intersected; and(c) indications of dips and faults and site plans and sections of boreholes drilled.(5) The plan required in sub-regulation 2(a) shall be on a scale of either 1 is to 500, 1 is to 2000 or 1 is to 2500 and the plan in sub-regulation 2(b) shall be on a scale of 1 is to 100, 1 is to 200, 1 is to 250 or 1 is to 500.(6) A holder or the manager of a mine shall maintain a plan of every dam or dump operated by the mine and of any abandoned dam or dump which may affect the mine operations or be affected in any way by the mine operations, or could be of danger to people and animals.(7) Where a plan is required to be kept in this regulation a true copy of the plan on durable material may be kept instead of the original of the plan.

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Responsible Institution

Minerals Commission

36 Second Cantonments Cl, Accra
Email:mlnrinfo@mlnr.gov.gh
Website:http://mincom.gov.gh

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