Minister of Agriculture and Environment Do Duc Duy has just signed a decision approving the plan to implement the Gyedological Investigation Plan for Minerals for the period 2021 - 2030, with a vision to 2050. Accordingly, the task group for basic geological investigation of minerals focuses on, prioritizing implementation in the period of 2021 - 2030.
The tasks are set out to include creating geological and mineral maps at a scale of 1:40,000 on the mainland in areas with mineral prospects and coastal areas of the Mekong Delta, Red River Delta, Central Highlands combined with investigation of subsidence and landslides on riverbanks and seas.
Urban geological survey, focusing on the period 2021-2030, is to supplement and update data from the National Urban Geological survey Reports completed before 2004. The goal is to provide information for planning and expanding urban areas and socio-economic centers of regions and localities. For large cities, conduct urban geological surveys combined with underground geological surveys (3D, 4D geology) to provide underground space models for urban underground planning and design: traffic, water supply and drainage, high-rise buildings, etc.
The next task set out is to investigate geological and environmental geology, focusing on construction tasks and urgent tasks for forecasting and warnings to localities being submitted to approval and zoning of landslides and floods of high -risk mountainous areas; Investigation of subsidence, landslides of river banks and coasts in the Mekong Delta region, serving sustainable development, adapting to climate change; investigate the current state of radioactive environment, toxic mineral environment; Investigate, research and delimit deep geological structures capable of safe storage of radioactive waste, CO2 and other toxic waste. At the same time, investigating geological heritage, including 1 task, completed the period 2021 to 2030.
In addition, assessing the potential for strategic and important minerals, minerals in urgent need include: fuel minerals (sigar, uranium, thori); rare earths and rare metals, cement limestone, river sand, sea sand, natural sand replacement materials.
