The National Mine Safety Administration selected and published four typical enforcement cases for non-coal mines on June 29, 2026, to strengthen safety supervision and provide warning education.
All violations in the four cases were identified as multiple major accident hazards. In the case from Inner Mongolia, an underground mine and its tailings pond were inspected from April 14 to 16, 2026, and found to have failed to leave ore pillars as designed, continued underground operations without necessary safety measures when the main ventilator stopped, and had discrepancies between drawings and actual conditions. The Keshiketeng Banner Emergency Management Bureau ordered the enterprise to rectify within a deadline and imposed fines on both the principal responsible person and the enterprise in accordance with Article 94, Paragraph 1 of the Work Safety Law.
In a joint inspection on April 7-8, 2026, the Qian'an Emergency Management Bureau and the Hebei Bureau of the National Mine Safety Administration found that an underground mine, despite complex hydrogeological conditions, had not equipped dedicated water exploration devices, team members entered mining faces without portable gas detectors, and roof support in roadways and stopes was inferior to design parameters. The mine was ordered to eliminate hazards within a deadline and fined under Article 102 of the Work Safety Law.
The Gongchangling District Emergency Management Bureau in Liaoyang, Liaoning, discovered tailings pond recovery activities at an ore processing enterprise by comparing satellite images from 2024 and 2025. On April 28, 2026, an on-site verification confirmed that the enterprise had conducted unauthorized sand extraction endangering tailings pond safety without technical evaluation or approval of safety facility design. The enterprise was ordered to cease operations, eliminate hazards, and fined.
On May 9, 2026, the Mengla County Emergency Management Bureau in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, found during an enforcement inspection that a limestone open-pit mine had put its dump safety facilities into use and started dumping without approval of the safety facility design. The mine was ordered to suspend production and business and fined under Article 98, Paragraph 1, Item 2 of the Work Safety Law.