On June 28, a representative of the Son La Provincial Inspectorate said that the unit had just completed the conclusion of a thematic inspection on the management of exploration, exploitation, licensing, and transportation of minerals for common construction materials in the period of 2019 - 2024, pointing out many shortcomings and limitations that need to be overcome.
According to Conclusion No. 36/KL-TTr dated June 25, 2025 of the Son La Provincial Inspectorate, there are currently a total of 162 mineral mines in Son La province for common construction materials planned according to Decision No. 1676/QD-TTg dated December 25, 2023 of the Prime Minister.
Including 53 construction stone quarries, 66 construction sand mines, 12 brick and fat mine points and 31 filling soil mines.
To effectively manage resources and minerals, in recent years, Son La province has stepped up leadership and direction in managing mineral resources. However, the management of mineral exploitation in Son La still has many shortcomings and limitations.
The conclusion of the Son La Provincial Inspectorate shows that the work of advising on the development of legal documents, directives, instructions, and implementation organization still has untimely content.
The work of advising on the planning of construction materials and minerals before 2023 is still overlapping and not synchronous. The consultation on investment policy, licensing of exploration, exploitation and organizing auctions of construction material mineral exploitation rights still has some shortcomings and limitations.
In addition, the coordination of tax authorities with relevant agencies to collect and pay revenues in resource exploitation activities is still not strict...
During the exploitation activities, some mineral exploitation licensed units have exploited outside the licensing scope, exploiting not in accordance with the exploitation layer system.
The implementation of procedures for land lease, management of gathering wharves, and basic construction of mines by some sand mining units is still limited. Some mineral exploitation units have incorrectly declared output, applied incorrect resource tax prices, and have not updated the price for calculating environmental protection fees... leading to a shortage of tax and fee payments to the State budget.
Through the inspection, the Son La Provincial Inspectorate has advised on 48 fines for violating units, with a total amount of more than 16 billion VND...
The Son La Provincial Inspectorate requested the Department of Agriculture and Environment to continue handling violations of minerals and land against 6 units. At the same time, urge the inspection of mineral exploitation units to restore, re-locate boundary markers buried by rocks and soil, complete the construction of the mine base according to regulations... The Inspectorate of Son La province also requested the Tax Department of Region IX to strengthen monitoring and urge mineral exploitation units to promptly pay the tax debt to the budget.
In particular, the Inspectorate of Son La province also proposed that the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment issue a Circular guiding the conversion rate of finished minerals to raw minerals for minerals with many minerals and useful minerals.
Regulate the issuance of the conversion rate of finished minerals to raw minerals for single minerals to determine compliance with the investor's reporting regime and complete and upgrade the national information system on investment.
